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) 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}]
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