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Raresaturnine
The correct spelling is saturnine.
How to pronounce saturnine
/-nɪn/
adjectiveIPA: /-nɪn/
Say it like: Sat-urn-ine
The correct spelling is saturnine. Of a person: having a tendency to be cold, bitter, gloomy, sarcastic, and slow to change and react.
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Definition
adjective
- 1.Of a person: having a tendency to be cold, bitter, gloomy, sarcastic, and slow to change and react.
- 2.Of a setting: depressing, dull, gloomy.
- 3.Of, pertaining to, or containing lead (which was symbolically associated with the planet Saturn by alchemists).
- 4.Of a disease: caused by lead poisoning (saturnism); of a person: affected by lead poisoning.
- 5.Pertaining to the astrological influence of the planet Saturn; having the characteristics of a person under such influence (see sense 1).
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