Mood
[muːd] or [mud]
Definition
(noun.) verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker.
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Definition
(n.) Manner; style; mode; logical form; musical style; manner of action or being. See Mode which is the preferable form).
(n.) 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.
(n.) Temper of mind; temporary state of the mind in regard to passion or feeling; humor; as, a melancholy mood; a suppliant mood.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Temper, humor, disposition, vein, frame of mind.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:State, temper, humor, feeling, vein, disposition
ANT:Mind, character, disposition, nature
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Definition
n. disposition of mind: temporary state of the mind: anger heat of temper.—adv. Mood′ily.—n. Mood′iness gloominess peevishness.—adjs. Mood′y indulging in moods: out of humour: angry: sad: gloomy; Mood′y-mad (Shak.) mad with anger.
n. fashion manner: (gram.) a. form of the verb to express the mode or manner of an action or of a state of being: (logic) the form of the syllogism as determined by the quantity and quality of its three constituent propositions: (mus.) the arrangement of the intervals in the scale as major and minor (see Mode).
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Examples
- Mr. Weller was in a very abstracted and contemplative mood. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Lily received this with fresh appreciation; his nonsense was like the bubbling of her inner mood. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- The impulse under which I acted, the mood controlling me, were similar to the impulse and the mood which had induced me to visit the confessional. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- In this mood her father came in unheard. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- He cleared his vision with his sleeve, and the melting mood over, a very stern one followed. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- To me, who knew his every mood and habit, his attitude and manner told their own story. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- This change of the general intellectual mood harmonized with Aristotle's natural respect for existing fact. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- While he was in this mood he saw four things that served to point his thoughts. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Fred felt an awkward movement of the heart; he had not thought of desk-work; but he was in a resolute mood, and not going to shrink. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- His fair neighbour, judging from her movements, appeared in a mood the most unquiet and unaccommodating. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Only in summer days of highest feather did its mood touch the level of gaiety. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- However, she still bore with unclouded mood the chidings her inattention brought upon her. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He was in that mood in which I thought it best not to increase his determination (if anything could increase it) by opposing him. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- It is just possible that to-morrow may find him in a more communicative mood. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- On either side of the peninsula the Atlantic in varying mood lies extended in summer sunshine, or from its shroud of mist thunders o n the black cliffs and their time-sculptured sandstones. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- On such occasions an interesting opportunity is offered to study Edison in his intense and constructive moods. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- War did not seem real to the moods of that time; nothing seemed real to the moods of that time. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But it is quite all right--I don't want you to mind having biffed me, in the leaSt. Tell the others it is just one of my moods. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He was in one of his moods, for the day had been both unprofitable and unsatisfactory, and he was wishing he could live it over again. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- But she had other moods besides the arch and na?ve. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Also, when we played at cards Miss Havisham would look on, with a miserly relish of Estella's moods, whatever they were. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- He was one of those surgeons whom it is dangerous to vex--abrupt in his best moods, in his worst savage. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Paul half apologized; he half regrettedtoo, the fitfulness of his moods at all times, yet he hinted that some allowance ought to be made for him. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The Greeks never loved Nature in her grandest moods, and—saving ?schylus—both shaggy mountain and roaring waters were alien to their genius. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- You know you can't do otherwise, for all your moods and changes! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Though occasionally chatty, his moods were erratic, and nobody could be certain how he would behave at any particular moment. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- She had different moods for different people. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Emmeline, in her child-like simplicity, was half afraid of the dark moods of Cassy. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Rebecca always knew how to conjure away these moods of melancholy. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- My Spring is gone, however, but it has left me that French floweret on my hands, which, in some moods, I would fain be rid of. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
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