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moody - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'moody' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Moody [ superl.]
- Subject to varying moods, especially to states of mind which are unamiable or depressed.
- Hence: Out of humor; peevish; angry; fretful; also, abstracted and pensive; sad; gloomy; melancholy.

Meaning of 'moody' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . moody [ s]
Meaning (1):
- showing a brooding ill humor
Example in sentence:
  • a dark scowl;
  • a glum, hopeless shrug;
  • a morose and unsociable manner;
  • a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius;
  • a sour temper;
  • a sullen crowd;
  • he sat in moody silence;
  • the proverbially dour New England Puritan
Meaning (2):
- subject to sharply varying moods
Example in sentence:
  • a temperamental opera singer