Crossword-Solution: SATURNINE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Saturnine | a. | Born under, or influenced by, the planet Saturn. |
| Saturnine | a. | Heavy; grave; gloomy; dull; -- the opposite of mercurial; as, a saturnine person or temper. |
| Saturnine | a. | Of or pertaining to lead; characterized by, or resembling, lead, which was formerly called Saturn. |
We have 22 clues for the answer “SATURNINE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Saunter in (anag) – unsmiling | 1 answer |
| Taciturn; gloomy | 1 answer |
| Sluggish in temperament | 1 answer |
| Gloomy or sullen | 1 answer |
| Dark and brooding | 1 answer |
| Adjective for Eeyore | 1 answer |
| A SENSITIVE OR HIGHLY STRUNG TEMPERAMENT | 10 answers |
| BITTER OR SCORNFUL | 11 answers |
| oppressing | 14 answers |
| depressant | 17 answers |
| mirthless | 26 answers |
| Taciturn | 28 answers |
| dolesome | 31 answers |
| dispiriting | 35 answers |
| lamentable | 36 answers |
| Morose | 39 answers |
| lugubrious | 44 answers |
| joyless | 50 answers |
| Bleak | 52 answers |
| Glum | 69 answers |
| Sullen | 79 answers |
| Gloomy | 89 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RAETE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SATURNINE (5)
His countenance, by daylight, had a sort of amiably saturnine cast; he had a very large thin nose, and looked like a Spanish picture.
His lank limbs were clad, I might also say clutched, in very tight grey sleeves and pantaloons; he had a long, sallow, aquiline face which seemed somehow all the more saturnine because his lantern jaws were imprisoned in his collar and neck-cloth more in the style of the old stock; and his hair (which ought to have been dark brown) was of an odd dim, russet colour which, in conjunction with his yellow face, looked rather purple than red.
Margheritone of Arezzo, With the grave-clothes garb and swaddling barret (Why purse up mouth and beak in a pet so, You bald old saturnine poll-clawed parrot?) Not a poor glimmering Crucifixion, Where in the foreground kneels the donor? If such remain, as is my conviction, The hoarding it does you but little honor.
The skin was puffed out under his sunken eyes, and its sallowness had paled to a leaden white against which his irregular eyebrows and long reddish moustache were relieved with a saturnine effect.
Thus between the first two speakers, who had betrayed themselves as Defoe and Smollett, there sat a dark, saturnine corpulent old man, with harsh prominent features, who I was sure could be none other than the famous author of Gulliver.
Quotes with SATURNINE (3)
She slipped off the lid and took out a little hourglass hanging on a silver pivot from a black ribbon, its belly full of twinkling black sand. "Oh, it's beautiful!" "You like it." Her guardian, the antiquarian, who invested every colour, gemstone, beast, and planet with arcane and symbolic meaning, would likely give her a lecture on saturnine influences. Blanche decided not to care. "Yes, I do.
The doctor was a frequent visitor at Miss Trumball's establishment, preferring it to the Lanchester house, whose girls had a saturnine disposition in his opinion, as if imported from Maine or other gloom-loving provinces.
If Jupiter was in the ascendant when you were born, you are of a jovial disposition; and if you're not jovial but miserable and saturnine that's a disaster, because a disaster is a dis-astro, or misplaced planet. Disaster is Latin for ill-starred. The fault, as Shakespeare put it, is not in our stars; but the language is.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, S&S, USA TODAY.
Used 12 times in crossword archives (1977–2015).