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Moody   /mˈudi/   Listen
adjective
Moody  adj.  (compar. moodier; superl. moodiest)  
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." "Arouse thee from thy moody dream!"
Synonyms: Gloomy; pensive; sad; fretful; capricious.





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"Moody" Quotes from Famous Books



... you not think he's unhappy about something or other Mrs. Granahan. He's got very dull and moody this last while. ...
— The Turn of the Road - A Play in Two Scenes and an Epilogue • Rutherford Mayne
... unimpeachable as is to be found in support of any thing whatever, that these shades of the dead congregate near tombstones, or take up their secret abode in the gloomy chambers of dilapidated castles, or walk by moonlight in moody solitude. ...
— History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science • John William Draper
... star! O shades of night—O moody, tearful night! O great star disappeared—O the black murk that hides the star! O cruel hands that hold me powerless—O helpless soul of me! O harsh surrounding cloud that will ...
— The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 - Sorrow and Consolation • Various
... restless, irritable, moody. And the queer part of it is he doesn't know it. He tries to be cheerful, and I could weep to see him. He has tried to cover it up with every kind of war work from Red Crossing to Liberty Loaning, and from writing free full-page ...
— Half Portions • Edna Ferber
... was headed up the river, and we had actually begun our long-talked-of trip. Cornwood steered the boat as well as usual, but he was moody and silent. If he was ugly and bent on mischief, the worst he could do, as I understood the matter, was to run the steamer aground. This would not be a very serious calamity, and could involve no worse consequences than a loss of time. I was not alarmed at anything he might do ...
— Down South - or, Yacht Adventure in Florida • Oliver Optic


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