MEANING
Somber, dour, and slow to show warmth or cheer.
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- saturnine manner
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His saturnine manner chilled the welcome.
A saturnine expression shadowed her face.
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Primary category: literary. Forms: Comparative more saturnine; superlative most saturnine where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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