saturnine🔊

Of a person: having a tendency to be cold, bitter, gloomy, sarcastic, and slow to change and react. +

Of a setting: depressing, dull, gloomy.

(chemistry, archaic) Of, pertaining to, or containing lead (which was symbolically associated with the planet Saturn by alchemists).

(pathology) Caused or affected by lead poisoning (saturnism).

(astrology, obsolete) Pertaining to the astrological influence of the planet Saturn; having the characteristics of a person under such influence.