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
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).
• Neustrian
Source: Wiktionary
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
16 May 2024
(noun) a system of economic regulation: wages and interest are tied to the cost-of-living index in order to reduce the effects of inflation
Coffee starts as a yellow berry, changes into a red berry, and then is picked by hand to harvest. The red berry is de-shelled through a water soaking process and what’s left inside is the green coffee bean. This bean then dries in the sun for 3-5 days, where it is then packed and ready for sale.
