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saturnine

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/-nɪn/ English

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  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.

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