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How to pronounce “saturnine”
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Pronunciation guide for saturnine
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of saturnine with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 1 YouTube example
- Real speech example
- Carolyn Porco: Could a Saturn moon harbor life? 4 minutes, 41 seconds
at the southern tip of the small Saturnine moon
- Definition summary
- (comparable) Of a person: having a tendency to be cold and gloomy
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How to pronounce saturnine
Carolyn Porco: Could a Saturn moon harbor life? 4 minutes, 41 seconds
at the southern tip of the small Saturnine moon
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “saturnine”
Meaning
- [Adjective]
- (comparable) Of a person: having a tendency to be cold and gloomy
- (comparable) Of a setting: depressing, dull, gloomy.
- (comparable, chemistry, archaic) Of, pertaining to, or containing lead (which was symbolically associated with the planet Saturn by alchemists).
- (not comparable, pathology) Caused or affected by lead poisoning (saturnism).
- (not comparable, astrology, obsolete) Pertaining to the astrological influence of the planet Saturn; having the characteristics of a person under such influence (see sense 1).
- (entomology) Belonging to or resembling butterflies of the family Saturnidae
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