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mood - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'mood' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Mood [ n.]
- Manner; style; mode; logical form; musical style; manner of action or being. See Mode which is the preferable form).
- Manner of conceiving and expressing action or being, as positive, possible, hypothetical, etc., without regard to other accidents, such as time, person, number, etc.; as, the indicative mood; the infinitive mood; the subjunctive mood. Same as Mode.
- Temper of mind; temporary state of the mind in regard to passion or feeling; humor; as, a melancholy mood; a suppliant mood.

Meaning of 'mood' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . mood [ n]
Meaning (1):
- a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
Example in sentence:
  • he was in a bad humor;
  • whether he praised or cursed me depended on his temper at the time
Meaning (2):
- the prevailing psychological state
Example in sentence:
  • the climate of opinion;
  • the national mood had changed radically since the last election