When you reach “Morose” in a puzzle, these are the answers that have consistently appeared in response to that exact clue wording. They’re pulled from reliable puzzles and trusted solving examples.
Answers:
- DOUR
- SULLEN
- SAD
- GLUM
- SATURNINE
- SULKY
- SOUR
- ILLTEMPERED
- DOWNCAST
- GRUM
- SURLY
Synonyms and Definitions
DOUR
- Synonyms: dark, dogged, forbidding, glowering, glum, grim, moody, persistent, pertinacious, saturnine, sour, sullen, tenacious, unyielding
SULLEN
- Synonyms: dour, heavy, lowering, threatening
SAD
- Synonyms: deplorable, distressing, lamentable, pitiful, sorry
SULKY
- Synonyms: gloomful, glooming, gloomy, huffish, sluggish
SOUR
- Synonyms: acetify, acidify, acidity, acidulate, false, ferment, off, off-key, rancid, sourness, tartness, turn, turned, work
DOWNCAST
- Synonyms: blue, depressed, dispirited, down, down in the mouth, downhearted, low, low-spirited
SURLY
- Synonyms: ugly
- Definition: Prone to irritation or negative emotions with hints of threat.