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What's The Definition Of Moody?
[n] United States evangelist (1837-1899)
[n] United States tennis player who dominated women's tennis in the 1920s and 1930s (born in 1906) [adj] subject to sharply varying moods; "a temperamental opera singer" [adj] showing a brooding ill humor; "a dark scowl"; "the proverbially dour New England Puritan"; "a glum, hopeless shrug"; "he sat in moody silence"; "a morose and unsociable manner"; "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper"; "a sullen crowd" Synonyms | Synonyms for Moody: dark | dour | Dwight Lyman Moody | emotional | glowering | glum | Helen Newington Wills | Helen Wills | Helen Wills Moody | ill-natured | morose | saturnine | sour | sullen | temperamental Related Terms | Find terms related to Moody: abrupt | adrift | afloat | alternating | amorphous | arbitrary | beetle-browed | black | black-browed | blue | brooding | broody | cantankerous | capricious | changeable | changeful | chapfallen | cheerless | crabbed | crabby | cranky | crestfallen | crotchety | crusty | curt | dark | dejected | depressed | desolate | despondent | desultory | deviable | disconsolate | disheartened | dismal | dizzy | dour | downcast | downhearted | dumpish | eccentric | erratic | fanciful | fantasied | fantastic | fast and loose | fickle | fitful | flaky | flickering | flighty | flitting | fluctuating | freakish | frowning | giddy | gloomy | glowering | glum | grim | grum | harebrained | huffish | huffy | humorsome | ill-humored | ill-tempered | impatient | impetuous | impulsive | in the doldrums | inconsistent | inconstant | indecisive | infirm | irregular | irresolute | irresponsible | irritable | kinky | long-faced | lowering | lugubrious | maggoty | mazy | melancholy | mercurial | moodish | mopey | moping | mopish | morose | motiveless | mumpish | notional | out of sorts | peevish | petulant | piqued | quirky | rambling | restless | roving | sad | saturnine | scatterbrained | scowling | shapeless | shifting | shifty | short | short-tempered | shuffling | snappish | snappy | spasmodic | spineless | sulking | sulky | sullen | surly | temperamental | testy | touchy | unaccountable | uncertain | uncontrolled | undependable | undisciplined | uneven | unfixed | unhappy | unpredictable | unreasonable | unreliable | unrestrained | unsettled | unstable | unstable as water | unstaid | unsteadfast | unsteady | vacillating | vagarious | vagrant | variable | vicissitudinary | vicissitudinous | volatile | wandering | wanton | waspish | wavering | wavery | wavy | wayward | whimsical | wishy-washy See Also | evangelist | gospeler | gospeller | revivalist | tennis player Moody In Webster's Dictionary \Mood"y\, a. [Compar. {Moodier}; superl. {Moodiest}.] [AS.
m[=o]dig courageous.]
1. Subject to varying moods, especially to states of mind
which are unamiable or depressed.
2. Hence: Out of humor; peevish; angry; fretful; also,
abstracted and pensive; sad; gloomy; melancholy. ``Every
peevish, moody malcontent.'' --Rowe.
Arouse thee from thy moody dream! --Sir W.
Scott.
Syn: Gloomy; pensive; sad; fretful; capricious.
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