saturnine

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adjective

1. bitter or scornful
- "the face was saturnine and swarthy, and the sensual lips...twisted with disdain"- Oscar Wilde
• Similar to:
sarcastic
2. showing a brooding ill humor
- a dark scowl
- the proverbially dour New England Puritan
- a glum, hopeless shrug
- he sat in moody silence
- a morose and unsociable manner
- "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven
- a sour temper
- a sullen crowd
• Syn:
dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody,
morose, sour, sullen
• Similar to:
ill-natured
• Derivationally related forms:
sullenness (for: sullen), sourness (for: sour), moroseness (for: morose), moodiness (for: moody), glumness (for: glum)

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, sour, sullen