Moody

Moo·dy  (md), Dwight Lyman 1837-1899.

American evangelist who toured major American and British cities and founded several educational institutions.

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mood·y  (md)

adj. mood·i·er, mood·i·est

1. Given to frequent changes of mood; temperamental.

2. Subject to periods of depression; sulky.

3. Expressive of a mood, especially a sullen or gloomy mood: a moody silence.

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moodi·ly adv.

moodi·ness n.

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moody

Adjective

[moodier, moodiest]

1. sullen, sulky, or gloomy

2. temperamental or changeable

moodily adv
moodiness n

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	Moody - United States tennis player who dominated women's tennis in the 1920s and 1930s (1905-1998) Helen Newington Wills, Helen Wills, Helen Wills Moody
	2.	Moody - United States evangelist (1837-1899) Dwight Lyman Moody
Adj.	1.	moody - 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" glowering, morose, sullen, saturnine, glum, dour, dark, sour ill-natured - having an irritable and unpleasant disposition
	2.	moody - subject to sharply varying moods; "a temperamental opera singer" temperamental emotional - of more than usual emotion; "his behavior was highly emotional"

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moody

adjective 1. changeable, volatile, unpredictable, unstable, erratic, fickle, temperamental, impulsive, mercurial, capricious, unsteady, fitful, flighty, faddish, inconstant << OPPOSITE stable

adjective 2. sulky, cross, wounded, angry, offended, irritable, crabbed, crusty, temperamental, touchy, curt, petulant, ill-tempered, irascible, cantankerous, tetchy, testy, chippy (informal) in a huff, short-tempered, waspish, piqued, crabby, huffy, splenetic, crotchety (informal) ill-humoured, huffish, tooshie Austral. (slang) << OPPOSITE cheerful

adjective 3. gloomy, sad, miserable, melancholy, frowning, dismal, dour, sullen, glum, introspective, in the doldrums, out of sorts (informal) downcast, morose, lugubrious, pensive, broody, crestfallen, doleful, down in the dumps (informal) saturnine, down in the mouth (informal) mopish, mopy << OPPOSITE cheerful

adjective 4. sad, gloomy, melancholy, sombre

Translations

moody [ˈmuːdɪ] adj (= variable) → de humor variable (= sullen); malhumorado

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moody [ˈmuːdɪ] mood adj (= variable) → d'humeur changeante, lunatique (= sullen); morose, maussade

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moody [ˈmuːdɪ] mood adj → launisch;

(sullen) → schlecht gelaunt

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moody [ˈmuːdɪ] adj (= variable) → capriccioso/a, lunatico/a (= sullen); imbronciato/a