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Taciturn Gloomy Crossword Clue

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We've checked our database and believe the answer is SATURNINE which was last seen in the New York Times crossword.
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227%7Taciturn
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We think the answer is "SATURNINE" which means:

    adjective satellite
  • • Bitter or scornful
  • • Showing a brooding ill humor
  • adjective
  • • Of a person: having a tendency to be cold, bitter, gloomy, sarcastic, and slow to change and react.
  • • Of a setting: depressing, dull, gloomy.
  • • Of, pertaining to, or containing lead (which was symbolically associated with the planet saturn by alchemists).
  • • Of a disease: caused by lead poisoning (saturnism); of a person: affected by lead poisoning.
  • • Pertaining to the astrological influence of the planet saturn; having the characteristics of a person under such influence (see sense 1).

An example sentence would be:

  • • "His saturnine demeanor made everyone around him uneasy."
  • • "The dark clouds and gloomy weather gave the town a saturnine atmosphere."

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New York Times14 Mar 1993 Down 57
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