moroseness

Other forms of moroseness

plural

morosenesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about moroseness

What does moroseness mean?

moroseness means "a gloomy ill-tempered feeling". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in moroseness?

moroseness has 4 syllables: mo-ro-se-ness. The stress falls on "ro".

What is another word for moroseness?

Close synonyms include glumness, sullenness, sulkiness, sullenness, sourness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is moroseness a common word?

moroseness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.