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