saturnine

1. having the temperament of one born under the supposed astrological influence of Saturn. 2. melancholy, surly, or sullen 3. produced by absorption of lead


I was flipping through my Webster’s unabridged dictionary tonight when I came across this word. Love the variety of definitions. The word I was actually looking up was scabrous.

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