adjective · rare

saturnine

sa·turn·ine

saturnine · more saturnine · most saturnine

мрачный, угрюмый

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Of a person: having a tendency to be cold and gloomyOf a person: having a tendency to be cold and gloomy.

UK/ˈsætənaɪn/US/ˈsætɚˌnaɪn/

Meaning

6 senses

(comparable)Of a person: having a tendency to be cold and gloomy.
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мра́чныйmráčnyj, угрю́мыйugrjúmyj
(comparable)Of a setting: depressing, dull, gloomy.
(not comparable)Caused or affected by lead poisoning (saturnism).
Belonging to or resembling butterflies of the family Saturnidae.
(archaic, comparable)Synonym of leaden, of or related to the metal lead, associated with the planet Saturn in European alchemy.
(not comparable, obsolete)Pertaining to the astrological influence of the planet Saturn; having the characteristics of a person under such influence (see sense 1).

More definitions

bitter or scornful
showing a brooding ill humor

Translations

7 languages

Русский

By meaning 1

of a person: having a tendency to be cold, bitter, gloomy, etc.:

Deutsch

By meaning 1

of a person: having a tendency to be cold, bitter, gloomy, etc.:

Origin

From Middle English saturnine, satournine, satournyne, saturnin, saturnyn, saturnyne (“per

From Middle English saturnine, satournine, satournyne, saturnin, saturnyn, saturnyne (“pertaining to or under the influence of the planet Saturn; line on the palm of the hand associated with Saturn”), from Old French saturnine, saturnin (modern French saturnin (“of, pertaining to, resembling or containing lead, plumbic”)), or directly from its etymon Medieval Latin Sāturnīnus, from Sāturnus (“the Roman god Saturn; the planet Saturn”) + -īnus (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’); analysable as Saturn + -ine. The English word is cognate with Italian saturnino (“saturnine”), Portuguese saturnino (“melancholy, saturnine; pertaining to the planet Saturn”), Spanish saturnino (“melancholy, saturnine; pertaining to the planet Saturn”).

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