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saturnine   (Sound)

KK Pronunciation

〔 ˋsætZˏnaIn 〕

Pronunciation

〔 ˊsætәːnain 〕


Overview of adj saturnine

The adj saturnine has 2 senses


  • saturnine -- (bitter or scornful; "the face was saturnine and swarthy, and the sensual lips...twisted with disdain"- Oscar Wilde)

  • dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen -- (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")