Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Moodiest"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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.

2. Hence: Out of humor; peevish; angry; fretful; also,
abstracted and pensive; sad; gloomy; melancholy. ``Every
peevish, moody malcontent.'' --Rowe.

Arouse thee from thy moody dream! --Sir W.
Scott.

Syn: Gloomy; pensive; sad; fretful; capricious.


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