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Meaning of saturnine

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saturnine

Pronunciation:/-nɪn//-ˌnin/

adjective

Definitions

Of a person: having a tendency to be cold, bitter, gloomy, sarcastic, and slow to change and react.
Synonyms:darkgrimsardonic
Antonyms:cheerfuljovial
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.

Sources:https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/saturnine