Usually means: Sullen, gloomy, and persistently sad.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. morose: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. morose: Merriam-Webster
  3. morose: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. morose: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. morose: Collins English Dictionary
  6. morose: Vocabulary.com
  7. Morose, morose: Wordnik
  8. morose: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. morose: Wiktionary
  10. morose: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. morose: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. morose: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Morose, morose: Dictionary.com
  14. morose: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. morose: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Morose: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Morose: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. morose: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. morose: Rhymezone
  20. morose, morose: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. morose: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Morose: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  23. morose: FreeDictionary.org
  24. morose: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. morose: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. morose: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. morose: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. morose: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. morose: A Word A Day

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. morose: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See morosely as well.)

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adjective:  Sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour.

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