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Moody Definition And Meaning
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.

Moody Definition And Meaning

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"

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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