Meaning & use
Saturnine
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Having a gloomy, brooding, or slow-to-change temperament.
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The saturnine professor rarely smiled, even when praising a student's work.
His saturnine mood darkened the whole dinner party.
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Rooted in medieval astrology, which held that people born under the influence of the planet Saturn were cold and gloomy by nature.
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