SATURNINE

dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen

(adjective) 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”

saturnine

(adjective) bitter or scornful; “the face was saturnine and swarthy, and the sensual lips...twisted with disdain”- Oscar Wilde

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Adjective

saturnine (comparative more saturnine, superlative most saturnine)

(comparable) Of a person: having a tendency to be cold, bitter, gloomy, sarcastic, and slow to change and react.

Synonyms: dark, grim, sardonic, Thesaurus:cheerless

Antonyms: cheerful, jovial, Thesaurus:happy

(comparable) Of a setting: depressing, dull, gloomy.

(comparable, chemistry, archaic) Of, pertaining to, or containing lead (which was symbolically associated with the planet Saturn by alchemists).

(not comparable, pathology) Of a disease: caused by lead poisoning (saturnism); of a person: affected by lead poisoning.

(not comparable, astrology, obsolete) Pertaining to the astrological influence of the planet Saturn; having the characteristics of a person under such influence (see sense 1).

Anagrams

• Neustrian

Source: Wiktionary

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Sat"ur*nine, a. Etym: [L. Saturnus the god Saturn, also, the planet Saturn: cf. F. saturnin of or pertaining to lead (Saturn, in old chemistry, meaning lead),saturnien saturnine, saturnian. See Saturn.]

1. Born under, or influenced by, the planet Saturn.

2. Heavy; grave; gloomy; dull; -- the opposite of mercurial; as, a saturnine person or temper. Addison.

3. (Old Chem.)

Definition: Of or pertaining to lead; characterized by, or resembling, lead, which was formerly called Saturn. [Archaic] Saturnine colic (Med.), lead colic.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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