3 definitions found 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. [1913 Webster] 2. Hence: Out of humor; peevish; angry; fretful; also, abstracted and pensive; sad; gloomy; melancholy. "Every peevish, moody malcontent." --Rowe. [1913 Webster] Arouse thee from thy moody dream! --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster] Syn: Gloomy; pensive; sad; fretful; capricious. [1913 Webster] Moolah From WordNet (r) 2.0 [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}, {morose}, {saturnine}, {sour}, {sullen}] 2: subject to sharply varying moods; "a temperamental opera singer" [syn: {temperamental}] n 1: United States tennis player who dominated women's tennis in the 1920s and 1930s (born in 1906) [syn: {Helen Wills Moody}, {Helen Wills}, {Helen Newington Wills}] 2: United States evangelist (1837-1899) [syn: {Dwight Lyman Moody}] [also: {moodiest}, {moodier}] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: moodier See {moody}
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