Word Meanings - SATURNINE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to lead; characterized by, or resembling, lead, which was formerly called Saturn. Saturnine colic , lead colic. (more info) Saturn: cf. F. saturnin of or pertaining to lead (Saturn, in old 1. Born under, or influenced by, the

Additional info about word: SATURNINE

Of or pertaining to lead; characterized by, or resembling, lead, which was formerly called Saturn. Saturnine colic , lead colic. (more info) Saturn: cf. F. saturnin of or pertaining to lead (Saturn, in old 1. Born under, or influenced by, the planet Saturn. 2. Heavy; grave; gloomy; dull; -- the opposite of mercurial; as, a saturnine person or temper. Addison.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SATURNINE)

• Sad
• Heavy
• grave
• dull
• sorrowful
• woe-begone
• calamitous
• dismal
• doleful
• mournful
• gloomy
• dejected
• depressed
• cheerless
• serious
• downcast
• grievous
• melancholy
• saturnine

Related words: (words related to SATURNINE)

• DEJECTION
  1. A casting down; depression. Hallywell. 2. The act of humbling or abasing one's self. Adoration implies submission and dejection. Bp. Pearson. 3. Lowness of spirits occasioned by grief or misfortune; mental depression; melancholy. What besides,
• SERIOUS
  1. Grave in manner or disposition; earnest; thoughtful; solemn; not light, gay, or volatile. He is always serious, yet there is about his manner a graceful ease. Macaulay. 2. Really intending what is said; being in earnest; not jesting
• GRAVES
  The sediment of melted tallow. Same as Greaves.
• DEJECTORY
  1. Having power, or tending, to cast down. 2. Promoting evacuations by stool. Ferrand.
• GRAVEDIGGER
  See T (more info) 1. A digger of graves.
• MOURNFUL
  Full of sorrow; expressing, or intended to express, sorrow; mourning; grieving; sad; also, causing sorrow; saddening; grievous; as, a mournful person; mournful looks, tones, loss. -- Mourn"ful*ly, adv. -- Mourn"ful*ness, n. Syn. -- Sorrowful;
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• GLOOMY
  1. Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded; as, the cavern was gloomy. "Though hid in gloomiest shade." Milton. 2. Affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy; dejected; as, a gloomy temper
• DISMAL
  dismalle." Chaucer. Of uncertain origin; but perh. (as suggested by Skeat) from OF. disme, F. dîme, tithe, the phrase dismal day properly 1. Fatal; ill-omened; unlucky. An ugly fiend more foul than dismal day. Spenser. 2. Gloomy to the eye or
• GRAVEN
  Carved. Graven image, an idol; an object of worship carved from wood, stone, etc. "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image." Ex. xx. 4.
• WOE-BEGONE
  Beset or overwhelmed with woe; immersed in grief or sorrow; woeful. Chaucer. So woe-begone was he with pains of love. Fairfax.
• HEAVY-HEADED
  Dull; stupid. "Gross heavy-headed fellows." Beau. & Fl.
• DEJECTURE
  That which is voided; excrements. Arbuthnot.
• GRAVEYARD
  A yard or inclosure for the interment of the dead; a cemetery.
• MELANCHOLY
  1. Depressed in spirits; dejected; gloomy dismal. Shak. 2. Producing great evil and grief; causing dejection; calamitous; afflictive; as, a melancholy event. 3. Somewhat deranged in mind; having the jugment impaired. Bp. Reynolds. 4. Favorable
• DEPRESSOMOTOR
  Depressing or diminishing the capacity for movement, as depressomotor nerves, which lower or inhibit muscular activity. -- n.
• GRAVELING; GRAVELLING
  1. The act of covering with gravel. 2. A layer or coating of gravel .
• DEJECTLY
  Dejectedly.
• GRAVES' DISEASE
  See DISEASE
• GRAVELESS
  Without a grave; unburied.
• WILDGRAVE
  A waldgrave, or head forest keeper. See Waldgrave. The wildgrave winds his bugle horn. Sir W. Scott.
• GRAVEL
  A deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a symptom. Gravel powder, a coarse gunpowder; pebble powder. (more info) strand; of Celtic origin; cf. Armor.
• PALGRAVE
  See PALSGRAVE
• PORTGREVE; PORTGRAVE
  In old English law, the chief magistrate of a port or maritime town.; a portreeve. Fabyan.
• TOP-HEAVY
  Having the top or upper part too heavy for the lower part. Sir H. Wotton.
• INGRAVE
  To engrave. "Whose gleaming rind ingrav'n." Tennyson.
• UNGRAVE
  To raise or remove from the grave; to disinter; to untomb; to exhume. Fuller.