saturnine

  • (s) bitter or scornful
    • "the face was saturnine and swarthy, and the sensual lips...twisted with disdain"- Oscar Wilde
  • (s) 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
    glowering, moody, morose, sullen, glum, dour, dark, sour,

Synonyms

glowering moody morose sullen glum dour dark sour

Words of close approximity

Saturnia
saturniid saturnism