Synonyms for saturnine

Synonyms for (adj) saturnine

Synonyms: dark, dour, glowering, glum, saturnine, sour, sullen, moody, morose

Definition: 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

Similar words: ill-natured

Definition: having an irritable and unpleasant disposition


Synonyms: saturnine

Definition: bitter or scornful

Usage: the face was saturnine and swarthy, and the sensual lips...twisted with disdain- Oscar Wilde

Similar words: sarcastic

Definition: expressing or expressive of ridicule that wounds


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