saturnine

Adjective

1. bitter or scornful; “the face was saturnine and swarthy, and the sensual lips…twisted with disdain”- Oscar Wilde
   • Similar to
     • sarcastic
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”
   • Synonyms
     • dark
     • dour
     • glowering
     • glum
     • moody
     • morose
     • sour
     • sullen
   • Similar to
     • ill-natured
   • Related
     • sulkiness
     • sullenness
     • moroseness
     • sourness
     • sulkiness
     • sullenness
     • moroseness
     • sourness
     • moroseness
     • glumness
     • sullenness
     • sulkiness
     • sullenness
     • moroseness
     • sourness
     • moodiness
     • moroseness
     • glumness
     • sullenness

• saturnine - LookUp Adjective

1. (of a person or their manner) slow and gloomy a saturnine temperament

(of a person or their features) dark in coloring and moody or mysterious his saturnine face and dark, watchful eyes

(of a place or an occasion) gloomy a saturnine setting

Origin

late Middle English (as a term in astrology): from Old French saturnin, from medieval Latin Saturninus ‘of Saturn’ (identified with lead by the alchemists and associated with slowness and gloom by astrologers)

Thesaurus

Adjective

1. he was a rather saturnine individual who never spoke an unnecessary word

Similar Words: gloomy sombre melancholy melancholic moody miserable lugubrious dour glum unsmiling humourless grumpy bad-tempered taciturn uncommunicative unresponsive

Opposites: cheerful jovial

1. his saturnine good looks

Similar Words: swarthy dark dark-skinned dark-complexioned mysterious mercurial moody