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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

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]:

  moodiest
       See {moody}

















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