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.
[1913 Webster]
Arouse thee from thy moody dream! --Sir W.
Scott.
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Syn: Gloomy; pensive; sad; fretful; capricious.
[1913 Webster] Moolah
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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]
WordNet (r) 2.0
158 Moby Thesaurus words for "moody":
abrupt, adrift, afloat, alternating, amorphous, arbitrary,
beetle-browed, black, black-browed, blue, brooding, broody,
cantankerous, capricious, changeable, changeful, chapfallen,
cheerless, crabbed, crabby, cranky, crestfallen, crotchety, crusty,
curt, dark, dejected, depressed, desolate, despondent, desultory,
deviable, disconsolate, disheartened, dismal, dizzy, dour,
downcast, downhearted, dumpish, eccentric, erratic, fanciful,
fantasied, fantastic, fast and loose, fickle, fitful, flaky,
flickering, flighty, flitting, fluctuating, freakish, frowning,
giddy, gloomy, glowering, glum, grim, grum, harebrained, huffish,
huffy, humorsome, ill-humored, ill-tempered, impatient, impetuous,
impulsive, in the doldrums, inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive,
infirm, irregular, irresolute, irresponsible, irritable, kinky,
long-faced, lowering, lugubrious, maggoty, mazy, melancholy,
mercurial, moodish, mopey, moping, mopish, morose, motiveless,
mumpish, notional, out of sorts, peevish, petulant, piqued, quirky,
rambling, restless, roving, sad, saturnine, scatterbrained,
scowling, shapeless, shifting, shifty, short, short-tempered,
shuffling, snappish, snappy, spasmodic, spineless, sulking, sulky,
sullen, surly, temperamental, testy, touchy, unaccountable,
uncertain, uncontrolled, undependable, undisciplined, uneven,
unfixed, unhappy, unpredictable, unreasonable, unreliable,
unrestrained, unsettled, unstable, unstable as water, unstaid,
unsteadfast, unsteady, vacillating, vagarious, vagrant, variable,
vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous, volatile, wandering, wanton,
waspish, wavering, wavery, wavy, wayward, whimsical, wishy-washy
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
Moody, AL (town, FIPS 51096)
Location: 33.59693 N, 86.49463 W
Population (1990): 4921 (1845 housing units)
Area: 28.6 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water)
Moody, MO
Zip code(s): 65777
Moody, TX (town, FIPS 49200)
Location: 31.30844 N, 97.36025 W
Population (1990): 1329 (573 housing units)
Area: 2.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 76557
U.S. Gazetteer (1990)
Moody -- U.S. County in South Dakota
Population (2000): 6595
Housing Units (2000): 2745
Land area (2000): 519.672138 sq. miles (1345.944602 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 1.425682 sq. miles (3.692498 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 521.097820 sq. miles (1349.637100 sq. km)
Located within: South Dakota (SD), FIPS 46
Location: 44.014833 N, 96.658939 W
Headwords:
Moody
Moody, SD
Moody County
Moody County, SD
U.S. Gazetteer Counties (2000)
Moody, AL -- U.S. town in Alabama
Population (2000): 8053
Housing Units (2000): 3317
Land area (2000): 23.890636 sq. miles (61.876461 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.143462 sq. miles (0.371565 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 24.034098 sq. miles (62.248026 sq. km)
FIPS code: 51096
Located within: Alabama (AL), FIPS 01
Location: 33.592469 N, 86.496369 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Moody, AL
Moody
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)
Moody, TX -- U.S. city in Texas
Population (2000): 1400
Housing Units (2000): 616
Land area (2000): 0.850678 sq. miles (2.203245 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.850678 sq. miles (2.203245 sq. km)
FIPS code: 49200
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 31.307489 N, 97.360210 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 76557
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Moody, TX
Moody
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)
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