Thesaurus / saturnine
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Aurora could see the flashes of his wit illuminating Sir John's saturnine countenance.
The chief alone preserved a gloomy and saturnine expression.
THE WINGS OF THE MORNINGLOUIS TRACY
He came forth from her chamber with his dark, saturnine face all flushed.
THE STRANGE ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN DANGEROUS, VOL. 1 OF 3GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA
The saturnine Pedro entered with some wonderful crusted port, and Colonel Menendez offered cigars.
BAT WINGSAX ROHMER
He reappeared—a saturnine silent man—as suddenly as he had gone away.
THE MOON ROCKARTHUR J. REES
The saturnine and self-sacrificing Spaniard had no sympathy with the joyous proceedings of the princes and merchants of the South.
THE EIGHTEEN CHRISTIAN CENTURIESJAMES WHITE
But his complexion was saturnine and melancholy, which was the cause that he never spared his own writings.
CURIOSITIES OF LITERATURE, VOL. 1 (OF 3)ISAAC D'ISRAELI
He is wiser far than all the grave Saturnine star-gazers and moralists in the world.
He had a marked squint and this gave him a saturnine expression.
THE TREMBLING OF A LEAFWILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM
Mrs. Beech herself represented to my boyish eyes the ideal of a saturnine and masterful queen.
THE COPPERHEADHAROLD FREDERIC
WORDS RELATED TO SATURNINE
- blue funk
- broody
- chapfallen
- cheerless
- crabbed
- crestfallen
- dejected
- depressed
- desolate
- despondent
- disconsolate
- dismal
- dispirited
- dour
- down in the dumps
- down in the mouth
- downcast
- downhearted
- dragged
- forlorn
- glum
- in low spirits
- in the dumps
- joyless
- low
- melancholy
- mirthless
- miserable
- moody
- moping
- mopish
- morose
- mournful
- oppressed
- pessimistic
- sad
- saturnine
- solemn
- sulky
- sullen
- surly
- ugly
- unhappy
- weary
- woebegone
- woeful
- angry
- cantankerous
- capricious
- changeable
- crabbed
- crestfallen
- cross
- dismal
- doleful
- dour
- down in the dumps
- down in the mouth
- downcast
- erratic
- fickle
- fitful
- flighty
- frowning
- gloomy
- glum
- huffy
- ill-humored
- ill-tempered
- impulsive
- in a huff
- in the doldrums
- introspective
- irascible
- irritable
- lugubrious
- melancholy
- mercurial
- miserable
- moping
- morose
- offended
- out of sorts
- pensive
- petulant
- piqued
- sad
- saturnine
- short-tempered
- splenetic
- sulky
- sullen
- testy
- touchy
- aberrant
- abnormal
- ailing
- brooding
- dark
- deadly
- depressed
- despondent
- diseased
- dreadful
- frightful
- ghastly
- ghoulish
- grim
- grisly
- gruesome
- hideous
- horrid
- infected
- irascible
- macabre
- malignant
- melancholy
- monstrous
- moody
- pessimistic
- saturnine
- sick
- somber
- sullen
- unhealthy
- unnatural
- unsound
- unusual
- unwholesome
- acid
- acrid
- acrimonious
- awkward
- bad-tempered
- blunt
- brusque
- captious
- choleric
- churlish
- cranky
- cross
- crotchety
- crusty
- cynical
- difficult
- dour
- fretful
- gloomy
- glum
- grouchy
- harsh
- huffy
- ill-humored
- ill-tempered
- irascible
- irritable
- misanthropic
- morose
- nasty-tempered
- peevish
- perverse
- petulant
- prickly
- saturnine
- snappish
- snappy
- sour
- splenetic
- sulky
- sullen
- surly
- tart
- testy
- tough
- trying
- unsociable
- acrimonious
- blue
- brusque
- cantankerous
- choleric
- churlish
- crabbed
- crabby
- cranky
- cross
- dolorous
- dour
- down
- down in the dumps
- down in the mouth
- frowning
- gloomy
- glum
- grouchy
- gruff
- harsh
- having blue devils
- having the blahs
- ill-humored
- ill-tempered
- in a bad mood
- in a blue funk
- irritable
- low
- melancholy
- moody
- moping
- mournful
- perverse
- perversive
- sad
- saturnine
- singing the blues
- snappish
- sour
- splenetic
- sulky
- sullen
- surly
- taciturn
- testy
- troubled
- ugly
- acid
- acrid
- acrimonious
- awkward
- bad-tempered
- blunt
- brusque
- captious
- choleric
- churlish
- cranky
- cross
- crotchety
- crusty
- cynical
- difficult
- dour
- fretful
- gloomy
- glum
- grouchy
- harsh
- huffy
- ill-humored
- ill-tempered
- irascible
- irritable
- misanthropic
- morose
- nasty-tempered
- peevish
- perverse
- petulant
- prickly
- saturnine
- snappish
- snappy
- sour
- splenetic
- sulky
- sullen
- surly
- tart
- testy
- tough
- trying
- unsociable
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