adjective/mɔʁn/
gloomy, glum, dismal, dreary
“Dirai-je au Dictateur dont l'ordre ici m'envoie / Que vous le recevez avec si peu de joie ? / Ce morne et froid accueil me surprend à mon tour.” — Shall I tell the Dictator whose order sends me here / That you received it [the news] with so little joy? / This glum and cold welcome surprises me too.
Inherited from Middle French morne, from Old French morne, murne, (compare Old French morner (“to mourn”)), from Frankish *murn, from Proto-Germanic *murnaz. Cognate with English mourn, Old Norse morna (“to pine away”), Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌽𐌰𐌽 (maurnan).