saturnine
adjective/ˈsætənaɪn/
/ˈsætərnaɪn/
(literary)- (of a person or their face) looking serious and threateningWord Originlate Middle English (as a term in astrology): from Old French saturnin, from medieval Latin Saturninus ‘of Saturn’ (identified with lead by the alchemists and associated with slowness and gloom by astrologers).
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