About The Word Mood

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Mood

Mood Meaning & Definition
Mood Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Mood?

[n] a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling; "whether he praised or cursed me depended on his temper at the time"; "he was in a bad humor"
[n] verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker
[n] the prevailing psychological state; "the climate of opinion"; "the national mood had changed radically since the last election"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Mood: climate | humor | humour | modality | mode | temper

Related Terms | Find terms related to Mood: action | affection | air | anagnorisis | angle | architectonics | architecture | argument | Aristotelian sorites | atmosphere | attitude | aura | background | catastrophe | categorical syllogism | character | characterization | color | complication | conditional | continuity | contrivance | cue | denouement | design | development | device | dilemma | disposition | eager | emotion | enthymeme | episode | fable | falling action | feel | feeling | figure | frame | frame of mind | gimmick | Goclenian sorites | heart | humor | imperative | in the mood | incident | inclination | inclined | indicative | individuality | jussive | keen | line | local color | mind | minded | mode | modus tollens | morale | motif | movement | mythos | nature | note | obligative | optative | paralogism | peripeteia | permissive | personality | plan | plot | potential | prosyllogism | pseudosyllogism | ready | recognition | response | rising action | rule | rule of deduction | scheme | secondary plot | semblance | sense | slant | sorites | soul | spirit | spirits | state of mind | story | strain | structure | subject | subjunctive | subplot | switch | syllogism | sympathetic | temper | temperament | thematic development | theme | timbre | tone | topic | twist | vein | well-disposed | willing

See Also | amiability | common mood | condition | declarative | declarative mood | fact mood | feeling | good humor | good humour | good temper | grammatical relation | ill humor | ill humour | imperative | imperative mood | indicative | indicative mood | interrogative | interrogative mood | jussive mood | optative | optative mood | status | subjunctive | subjunctive mood | sulk | sulkiness

Mood In Webster's Dictionary

\Mood\, n. [The same word as mode, perh. influenced by mood temper. See {Mode}.] 1. Manner; style; mode; logical form; musical style; manner of action or being. See {Mode} which is the preferable form). 2. (Gram.) Manner of conceiving and expressing action or being, as positive, possible, hypothetical, etc., without regard to other accidents, such as time, person, number, etc.; as, the indicative mood; the infinitive mood; the subjunctive mood. Same as {Mode}.
\Mood\, n. [OE. mood, mod, AS. m[=o]dmind, feeling, heart, courage; akin to OS. & OFries. m[=o]d, D. moed, OHG. muot, G. muth, mut, courage, Dan. & Sw. mod, Icel. m[=o]?r wrath, Goth. m[=o]ds.] Temper of mind; temporary state of the mind in regard to passion or feeling; humor; as, a melancholy mood; a suppliant mood. Till at the last aslaked was mood. --Chaucer. Fortune is merry, And in this mood will give us anything. --Shak. The desperate recklessness of her mood. --Hawthorne.

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