different between short-tempered vs morose

English

Adjective

short-tempered (comparative more short-tempered, superlative most short-tempered)

1. Easily angered; frequently losing one's temper.

   She is so short-tempered that people avoid her company.

Synonyms

• hotheaded
• quick-tempered
• impatient
• temperamental

Antonyms

• cool (in the sense of calm or relaxed)
• cool-headed
• even-tempered

Related terms

• hot-tempered

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