dictionary definitions for "moody"


From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  moody
      adj 1: 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" [syn: dark, dour, glowering, glum,
             moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen]
      2: subject to sharply varying moods; "a temperamental opera
         singer" [syn: moody, temperamental]
      n 1: United States tennis player who dominated women's tennis in
           the 1920s and 1930s (1905-1998) [syn: Moody, {Helen Wills
           Moody}, Helen Wills, Helen Newington Wills]
      2: United States evangelist (1837-1899) [syn: Moody, {Dwight
         Lyman Moody}]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Moody \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.
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     2. Hence: Out of humor; peevish; angry; fretful; also,
        abstracted and pensive; sad; gloomy; melancholy. "Every
        peevish, moody malcontent." --Rowe.
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              Arouse thee from thy moody dream!     --Sir W.
                                                    Scott.
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     Syn: Gloomy; pensive; sad; fretful; capricious.
          [1913 Webster] Moolah


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