saturnic
/səˈtɝnɪk/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adj
saturnine; tending to a gloomy, melancholy, or bitter disposition
adj
Example Sentences
- "As regards alcohol, eight of the men, including one subject of gout and one of lead-poisoning, confined their potations to two pints of beer or less daily. Of one more, a painter, gouty and saturnic, the amount was not ascertained."
- "Similarly, further studies are necessary in order to find out the exact share of responsibility of nautical activities in saturnic pollution, and the precise sources of nickel and cadmium."
- "Don Fernan presented that union of fiery passion and saturnic manners not unusual among Spaniards."
- "They made an odd-looking pair. Thomas short, round and tubby with the look of a naughty cherub, Campbell tall, saturnic and inclined to look gloomy under his wide fawn sombrero."
- "Taking into account the metaphor »scythe of Saturn« that refers to the god as well as the planet of melancholy that the title of Sebald’s book recalls from the beginning, one might consider the vision of the globe as a graveyard as part of a baroque topos of vanitas and transitoriness—in the sense that Walter Benjamin pointed to the significance of saturnic melancholy within the ruinous world of seventeenth-century German tragedies."
- "Under these conditions the Moon could only collide with satellites in orbits external to the Moon itself since it is well-known that any sizable satellite inside the Roche limit would rapidly disintegrate into some kind of saturnic ring."
Etymology
From Saturn + -ic.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /səˈtɝnɪk/
- British English: /səˈtɜːnɪk/
Inflected Forms
more saturnic (comparative)
most saturnic (superlative)