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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

black, bleak, crabbed, dark, dismal, dour, drear, drearisome, dreary, funebrial, funereal, gloomy, glum, grave, gray, grim, moping, morose, reserved, serious, silent, solemn, somber, sombrous, staid, sulky, surly, taciturn, triste, ugly, uncommunicative, weariful, wearisome, weary

Dictionary Results for saturnine:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

saturnine
    adj 1: bitter or scornful; "the face was saturnine and swarthy,
           and the sensual lips...twisted with disdain"- Oscar Wilde
    2: 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" [syn: dark,
       dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine,
       sour, sullen]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Saturnine \Sat"ur*nine\, a. [L. Saturnus the god Saturn, also,
   the planet Saturn: cf. F. saturnin of or pertaining to lead
   (Saturn, in old chemistry, meaning lead), saturnien
   saturnine, saturnian. See Saturn.]
   1. Born under, or influenced by, the planet Saturn.
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   2. Heavy; grave; gloomy; dull; -- the opposite of
      mercurial; as, a saturnine person or temper. --Addison.
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   3. (Old Chem.) Of or pertaining to lead; characterized by, or
      resembling, lead, which was formerly called Saturn.
      [Archaic]
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   Saturnine colic (Med.), lead colic.
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