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downcast: With Charley again in one of his morbid moods, we can
anticipate another cheerless visit.
moreover adv. furthermore, further, besides, not only that, more than
that, what is more; to boot, into the bargain, in addition,
additionally, as well, too: She was pleased that I had brought
some wine - it was, moreover, her favourite burgundy.
moribund adj. 1 dying, in extremis, at death's door, failing, fading,
with one foot in the grave, half-dead, breathing one's last,
expiring, on one's last legs, on one's deathbed: Apparently
moribund for weeks, he suddenly revived when he saw her. 2
ending, declining, obsolescent, weak, on the way out, waning, on
the wane, dying out; stagnating, stagnant: At the time, the
Ottoman Empire was already moribund.
morning n. 1 forenoon, a.m., dawn, daybreak, sunrise, Literary morn,
Archaic cock crow, day-spring, morrow, Chiefly US sun-up: The
meeting will be at nine o'clock in the morning.
--adj. 2 matutinal, matinal, a.m., forenoon: I prefer a
morning meeting.
morsel n. 1 mouthful, bite, gobbet, spoonful, forkful, chew, taste,
sample, nibble, bit, drop, dollop, soup‡on: She delicately ate
tiny morsels of the banana. 2 bit, crumb, fragment, scrap,
sliver, splinter, shard or sherd, shred, remnant, particle,
atom, speck, whit, fraction, grain, granule, pinch, piece,
Colloq smidgen or smidgin: There wasn't the slightest morsel of
evidence to connect me with the crime.
mortal adj. 1 human; transitory, temporal, transient, ephemeral: It
finally dawned on him that the king was mortal, like other men.
2 physical, bodily, corporeal, corporal, fleshly, earthly,
worldly, perishable: Her mortal remains are buried at Bognor
Regis. 3 deadly, fatal, lethal, terminal, destructive,
disastrous: The admiral lay dying from a mortal wound. 4
relentless, implacable, unrelenting, bitter, sworn, deadly,
unremitting, unappeasable, unceasing: Halifax was the mortal
enemy of despotism. 5 abject, extreme, awful, great, enormous,
intense, terrible, inordinate, dire: Giles lived in mortal fear
of offending his mother.