Usually means: Gloomy, morose, sullen in temperament.
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  1. saturnine: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. saturnine: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. saturnine: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. saturnine: Collins English Dictionary
  5. saturnine: Vocabulary.com
  6. Saturnine, saturnine: Wordnik
  7. saturnine: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. saturnine: Wiktionary
  9. saturnine: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. saturnine: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. saturnine: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. saturnine: Dictionary.com
  13. saturnine: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Saturnine: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Saturnine: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. saturnine: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. saturnine: Rhymezone
  18. Saturnine: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. saturnine: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. saturnine: Free Dictionary
  21. saturnine: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. saturnine: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. saturnine: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. Saturnine: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

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  1. An Etymological Dictionary of Classical Mythology (No longer online)

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  1. saturnine: Legal dictionary

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  1. saturnine: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. saturnine: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. saturnine, saturnine: A Word A Day
  2. saturnine: Wordcraft Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (comparable) Of a person: having a tendency to be cold and gloomy
adjective:  (comparable) Of a setting: depressing, dull, gloomy.
adjective:  (comparable, chemistry, archaic) Of, pertaining to, or containing lead (which was symbolically associated with the planet Saturn by alchemists).
adjective:  (not comparable, pathology) Caused or affected by lead poisoning (saturnism).
adjective:  (not comparable, astrology, obsolete) Pertaining to the astrological influence of the planet Saturn; having the characteristics of a person under such influence (see sense 1).
adjective:  Of or relating to the ancient Roman god Saturn.

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