Word Meanings - MOODY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Subject to varying moods, especially to states of mind which are unamiable or depressed. 2. Hence: Out of humor; peevish; angry; fretful; also, abstracted and pensive; sad; gloomy; melancholy. "Every peevish, moody malcontent." Rowe. Arouse

Additional info about word: MOODY

1. Subject to varying moods, especially to states of mind which are unamiable or depressed. 2. Hence: Out of humor; peevish; angry; fretful; also, abstracted and pensive; sad; gloomy; melancholy. "Every peevish, moody malcontent." Rowe. Arouse thee from thy moody dream! Sir W. Scott. Syn. -- Gloomy; pensive; sad; fretful; capricious.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MOODY)

• Angry
• Wrathful
• irate
• resentful
• ireful
• incensed
• furious
• irascible
• choleric
• moody
• nettled
• touchy
• sullen
• piqued
• excited
• provoked
• raging
• chafed
• hasty
• hot
• exasperated
• indignant
• passionate
• Melancholy
• Gloomy
• sad
• dejected
• disconsolate
• dismal
• hypochondriacal
• cast down
• Morose
• Sullen
• austere
• crabbed
• surly
• crusty
• heavy
• foreboding
• sulky
• lowering
• cheerless

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