Dictionary Definition
mood
Noun
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, humor, humour]
2 the prevailing psychological state; "the
climate of opinion"; "the national mood had changed radically since
the last election" [syn: climate]
3 verb inflections that express how the action or
state is conceived by the speaker [syn: mode, modality]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- /muːd/
Etymology 1
From mod.Noun
Synonyms
- sense mental or emotional state composure, humor/humour, spirits, temperament
- sense bad mood huff qualifier informal, pet, temper
- sense disposition to do something frame of mind
Derived terms
Translations
mental state
- Arabic:
- Bosnian: raspoloženje
- Chinese: 心情 (xīnqíng)
- Czech: nálada
- Dutch: humeur, stemming
- Finnish: mieliala, mielentila
- French: humeur
- German: Gemüt, Stimmung
- Hebrew: מצב רוח (matsav ruakh)
- Hindi: स्वभाव, मन का वेग, चित्त वृत्ति, भाव
- Hungarian: hangulat
- Italian: umore
- Japanese: 気分 (きぶん, kibun)
- Korean: 기분 (gibun)
- Norwegian: humør
- Polish: nastrój , humor
- Portuguese: humor
- Russian: настроение
- Serbian:
- Cyrillic:
расположење
- Roman: raspoloženje
- Cyrillic:
расположење
- Spanish: humor
- Swedish: stämning , humör
- Thai: (aarom dee)
bad mood
- Bosnian: neraspoloženje
- Dutch: humeur, bui
- Finnish: huono tuuli
- French: mauvaise humeur , humeur
- Italian: cattivo umore
- Norwegian: dårlig humør
- Russian: дурное настроение (durnóje nastrojénije) , уныние (unýnije)
- Serbian:
- Cyrillic:
нерасположење
- Roman: neraspoloženje
- Cyrillic:
нерасположење
- Swedish: dåligt humör , humör
- Thai: (aarom mâi dee), (ngòot-ngìt), (aarom sĭa)
disposition (see also in the
mood)
- Bosnian: raspoloženje
- Finnish: tuuli, aikeet
- French: humeur
- Hebrew: מצב רוח (matsav ruakh)
- Norwegian: humør
- Russian: настроение
- Serbian:
- Cyrillic:
расположење
- Roman: raspoloženje
- Cyrillic:
расположење
- Swedish: humör
See also
Etymology 2
Alteration of modeNoun
- A verb form that depends on how its containing clause relates
to the speaker’s or writer’s wish, intent, or assertion about
reality.
- The most common mood in English is the indicative.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
in grammar
Anagrams
Estonian
Noun
Extensive Definition
Mood may refer to:
- Mood (psychology)
- Mood (borough of Birjand City)
- Mood (hip hop group), hip hop artists
- Grammatical mood
- Moods (Barbara Mandrell album)
mood in French: mood
mood in Japanese: ムード
Mood Angry Sad Moody Fabulous Lonly Leftout
Great
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Aristotelian sorites, Goclenian sorites, action, affection, air, anagnorisis, angle, architectonics, architecture, argument, atmosphere, attitude, aura, background, catastrophe, categorical
syllogism, character,
characterization,
color, complication, conditional, continuity, contrivance, cue, denouement, design, development, device, dilemma, disposition, eager, emotion, enthymeme, episode, fable, falling action, feel, feeling, figure, frame, frame of mind, gimmick, heart, humor, imperative, in the mood,
incident, inclination, inclined, indicative, individuality, jussive, keen, line, local color, mind, minded, mode, modus tollens, morale, motif, movement, mythos, nature, note, obligative, optative, paralogism, peripeteia, permissive, personality, plan, plot, potential, prosyllogism, pseudosyllogism,
ready, recognition, response, rising action,
rule, rule of deduction,
scheme, secondary plot,
semblance, sense, slant, sorites, soul, spirit, spirits, state of mind, story, strain, structure, subject, subjunctive, subplot, switch, syllogism, sympathetic, temper, temperament, thematic
development, theme,
timbre, tone, topic, twist, vein, well-disposed, willing