Mood - Dictionary Definition and Overview

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]

Based on WordNet 2.0

Mood : \Mood\, 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).

2. (Gram.) Manner of conceiving and expressing action or being, as positive, possible, hypothetical, etc., without regard to other accidents, such as time, person, number, etc.; as, the indicative mood; the infinitive mood; the subjunctive mood. Same as Mode.

Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

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]?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.

Till at the last aslaked was mood. --Chaucer.

Fortune is merry, And in this mood will give us anything. --Shak.

The desperate recklessness of her mood. --Hawthorne.

Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Example Usage of Mood

sifnaaudia: bad Mood mendadak nih -_-
Lissia: in a rather deep and random Mood today...
uniquewoods69: #Mood I am *High*
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