Found 2 items, similar to saturnine.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: saturnine
saturnine
adj 1: bitter or scornful;
“the face was saturnine and swarthy, and
the sensual lips...twisted with disdain”- Oscar Wilde
2: 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” [syn:
dark,
dour,
glowering,
glum,
moody,
morose,
sour,
sullen]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Saturnine
Saturnine
\Sat"ur*nine\, a. [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.
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2. Heavy; grave; gloomy; dull; -- the opposite of
mercurial; as, a saturnine person or temper. --Addison.
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3. (Old Chem.) Of or pertaining to lead; characterized by, or
resembling, lead, which was formerly called Saturn.
[Archaic]
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Saturnine colic (Med.), lead colic.
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