What is the meaning of morose?

Showing a brooding ill humor.
- usage: "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"
- synonyms: dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, saturnine, sour, sullen

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