0 unhappy, annoyed, and unwilling to speak or smile:
a morose expression
Why are you so morose these days?
1 unhappy or annoyed and unwilling to speak, smile, or be pleasant to people:
Conservatives ' ' were increasingly cognizant, ' ' he says, ' ' of the need to avoid either quixotic antistatism or morose authoritarianism if their movement was to capture national power and respect.
This insult makes me morose, discontented, bitter and a malcontent through no fault of one's own.
They arrived sullen, suspicious and morose, and at the end of the three weeks they were vivacious, full of life—in fact just normal children again.
There are men who are violent, insubordinate, sullen, morose and utterly brutal creatures.
I have seen myself how depressed and morose for substantial periods after refusal of parole a prisoner and his family can be.
Then there is the boy who perhaps has a bad family background and who is a bit morose.
That seems to me a sour and morose form of comfort.
Under its influence the weak man becomes foolish, the morose man weeps, and the excitable man becomes exalted.