Definitions for saturnine

Overview of adj saturnine

The adj saturnine has 2 senses? (no senses from tagged texts)

1. saturnine

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

2. 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")