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NOUN (2)

1. United States tennis player who dominated women's tennis in the 1920s and 1930s (1905-1998);
[syn: Moody, Helen Wills Moody, Helen Wills, Helen Newington Wills]

2. United States evangelist (1837-1899);
[syn: Moody, Dwight Lyman Moody]


ADJECTIVE (2)

1. showing a brooding ill humor;
- Example: "a dark scowl"
- Example: "the proverbially dour New England Puritan"
- Example: "a glum, hopeless shrug"
- Example: "he sat in moody silence"
- Example: "a morose and unsociable manner"
- Example: "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven
- Example: "a sour temper"
- Example: "a sullen crowd"
[syn: dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen]

2. subject to sharply varying moods;
- Example: "a temperamental opera singer"
[syn: moody, temperamental]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Moody \Mood"y\, a. [Compar. Moodier; superl. Moodiest.] [AS.
   m[=o]dig courageous.]
   1. Subject to varying moods, especially to states of mind
      which are unamiable or depressed.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Hence: Out of humor; peevish; angry; fretful; also,
      abstracted and pensive; sad; gloomy; melancholy. "Every
      peevish, moody malcontent." --Rowe.
      [1913 Webster]

            Arouse thee from thy moody dream!     --Sir W.
                                                  Scott.
      [1913 Webster]

   Syn: Gloomy; pensive; sad; fretful; capricious.
        [1913 Webster] Moolah


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

moody
    adj 1: 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" [syn: dark, dour, glowering, glum,
           moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen]
    2: subject to sharply varying moods; "a temperamental opera
       singer" [syn: moody, temperamental]
    n 1: United States tennis player who dominated women's tennis in
         the 1920s and 1930s (1905-1998) [syn: Moody, Helen Wills
         Moody, Helen Wills, Helen Newington Wills]
    2: United States evangelist (1837-1899) [syn: Moody, Dwight
       Lyman Moody]