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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (3)

1. a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling;
- Example: "whether he praised or cursed me depended on his temper at the time"
- Example: "he was in a bad humor"
[syn: temper, mood, humor, humour]

2. the prevailing psychological state;
- Example: "the climate of opinion"
- Example: "the national mood had changed radically since the last election"
[syn: climate, mood]

3. verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker;
[syn: mood, mode, modality]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Mood \Mood\ (m[=oo]d), n. [The same word as mode, perh. influenced by mood temper. See Mode.] 1. Manner; style; mode; logical form; musical style; manner of action or being. See Mode which is the preferable form). [1913 Webster] 2. (Gram.) Manner of conceiving and expressing action or being, as positive, possible, conditional, hypothetical, obligatory, imperitive, etc., without regard to other accidents, such as time, person, number, etc.; as, the indicative mood; the imperitive mood; the infinitive mood; the subjunctive mood. Same as Mode. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Mood \Mood\, n. [OE. mood, mod, AS. m[=o]dmind, feeling, heart, courage; akin to OS. & OFries. m[=o]d, D. moed, OHG. muot, G. muth, mut, courage, Dan. & Sw. mod, Icel. m[=o][eth]r wrath, Goth. m[=o]ds.] Temper of mind; temporary state of the mind in regard to passion or feeling; humor; as, a melancholy mood; a suppliant mood. [1913 Webster] Till at the last aslaked was his mood. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] Fortune is merry, And in this mood will give us anything. --Shak. [1913 Webster] The desperate recklessness of her mood. --Hawthorne. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

mood n 1: a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling; "whether he praised or cursed me depended on his temper at the time"; "he was in a bad humor" [syn: temper, mood, humor, humour] 2: the prevailing psychological state; "the climate of opinion"; "the national mood had changed radically since the last election" [syn: climate, mood] 3: verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker [syn: mood, mode, modality]