saturnine
6 antonyms for saturnine — opposites grouped by meaning.
Adj — Describes someone who tends to be cold, distant and gloomy by nature.
Synonyms by Meaning
1. adj
Describes someone who tends to be cold, distant and gloomy by nature.
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2. adj
Describes a place or atmosphere that feels dull, dark and depressing.
“This saturnine line of thinking proceeds as the clouds overhead start to coalesce and the sky takes on its regular clothy P.M. weight.”
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Etymology
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...
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