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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).
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   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.
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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.
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         Till at the last aslaked was his mood.   --Chaucer.
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         Fortune is merry,
         And in this mood will give us anything.  --Shak.
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         The desperate recklessness of her mood.  --Hawthorne.
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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]