different between dismayed vs morose

English

Verb

dismayed

1. simple past tense and past participle of dismay

Adjective

dismayed (comparative more dismayed, superlative most dismayed)

1. Having the emotion of dismay.

   He was dismayed to find his car had gone.

Derived terms

• dismayedness
• undismayed

Translations

English

Etymology

From French morose, from Latin m?r?sus (“particular, scrupulous, fastidious, self-willed, wayward, capricious, fretful, peevish”), from m?s (“way, custom, habit, self-will”). See moral.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /m?????s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /m???o?s/

Adjective

morose (comparative more morose or moroser, superlative most morose or morosest)

1. Sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour.

   Synonyms: melancholy, sulky, crabby, glum, grouchy, gruff, moody

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

• morose in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• morose in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• morose at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Romeos, mooers, more so, moreso, roomes

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin m?r?sus (“peevish, wayward”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?.?oz/
• Homophone: moroses

Adjective

morose (plural moroses)

1. sullen, gloomy, morose

Derived terms

• morosement
• morosité

Related terms

• mœurs

Further reading

• “morose” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Adjective

morose

1. feminine plural of moroso

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /mo??ro?.se/, [mo???o?s??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /mo?ro.se/, [m?????s??]

Adjective

m?r?se

1. vocative masculine singular of m?r?sus

References

• morose in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• morose in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• morose in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette