Hypertext Webster Gateway: "moody"
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (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: {Moody}, {Helen
Wills Moody}, {Helen Wills}, {Helen Newington Wills}]
2: United States evangelist (1837-1899) [syn: {Moody}, {Dwight
Lyman Moody}]
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