'Moody' definitions:
Definition of 'moody'
(from WordNet)
adjective
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]
adjective
Subject to sharply varying moods; "a temperamental opera singer" [syn: moody, temperamental]
noun
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]
noun
United States evangelist (1837-1899) [syn: Moody, Dwight Lyman Moody]
Definition of 'Moody'
From: GCIDE
- 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
Synonyms of 'moody'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abrupt,
- adrift,
- afloat,
- alternating,
- amorphous,
- arbitrary,
- beetle-browed,
- black,
- black-browed,
- blue,
- brooding,
- broody,
- cantankerous,
- capricious,
- changeable,
- changeful,
- chapfallen,
- cheerless,
- crabbed,
- crabby,
- cranky,
- crestfallen,
- crotchety,
- crusty,
- curt,
- dark,
- dejected,
- depressed,
- desolate,
- despondent,
- desultory,
- deviable,
- disconsolate,
- disheartened,
- dismal,
- dizzy,
- dour,
- downcast,
- downhearted,
- dumpish,
- eccentric,
- erratic,
- fanciful,
- fantasied,
- fantastic,
- fast and loose,
- fickle,
- fitful,
- flaky,
- flickering,
- flighty,
- flitting,
- fluctuating,
- freakish,
- frowning,
- giddy,
- gloomy,
- glowering,
- glum,
- grim,
- grum,
- harebrained,
- huffish,
- huffy,
- humorsome,
- ill-humored,
- ill-tempered,
- impatient,
- impetuous,
- impulsive,
- in the doldrums,
- inconsistent,
- inconstant,
- indecisive,
- infirm,
- irregular,
- irresolute,
- irresponsible,
- irritable,
- kinky,
- long-faced,
- lowering,
- lugubrious,
- maggoty,
- mazy,
- melancholy,
- mercurial,
- moodish,
- mopey,
- moping,
- mopish,
- morose,
- motiveless,
- mumpish,
- notional,
- out of sorts,
- peevish,
- petulant,
- piqued,
- quirky,
- rambling,
- restless,
- roving,
- sad,
- saturnine,
- scatterbrained,
- scowling,
- shapeless,
- shifting,
- shifty,
- short,
- short-tempered,
- shuffling,
- snappish,
- snappy,
- spasmodic,
- spineless,
- sulking,
- sulky,
- sullen,
- surly,
- temperamental,
- testy,
- touchy,
- unaccountable,
- uncertain,
- uncontrolled,
- undependable,
- undisciplined,
- uneven,
- unfixed,
- unhappy,
- unpredictable,
- unreasonable,
- unreliable,
- unrestrained,
- unsettled,
- unstable,
- unstable as water,
- unstaid,
- unsteadfast,
- unsteady,
- vacillating,
- vagarious,
- vagrant,
- variable,
- vicissitudinary,
- vicissitudinous,
- volatile,
- wandering,
- wanton,
- waspish,
- wavering,
- wavery,
- wavy,
- wayward,
- whimsical,
- wishy-washy
Moody, AL -- U.S. town in Alabama
From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
Moody, AL -- U.S. town in Alabama
Population (2000) :
8053
Housing Units (2000) :
3317
Land area (2000) :
23.890636 sq. miles (61.876461 sq. km)
Water area (2000) :
0.143462 sq. miles (0.371565 sq. km)
Total area (2000) :
24.034098 sq. miles (62.248026 sq. km)
FIPS code :
51096
Located within :
Alabama (AL), FIPS 01
Location :
33.592469 N, 86.496369 W
Note :
some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Moody, TX -- U.S. city in Texas
From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
Moody, TX -- U.S. city in Texas
Population (2000) :
1400
Housing Units (2000) :
616
Land area (2000) :
0.850678 sq. miles (2.203245 sq. km)
Water area (2000) :
0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000) :
0.850678 sq. miles (2.203245 sq. km)
FIPS code :
49200
Located within :
Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location :
31.307489 N, 97.360210 W
ZIP Codes (1990) :
76557
Note :
some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Moody -- U.S. County in South Dakota
From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
Moody -- U.S. County in South Dakota
Population (2000) :
6595
Housing Units (2000) :
2745
Land area (2000) :
519.672138 sq. miles (1345.944602 sq. km)
Water area (2000) :
1.425682 sq. miles (3.692498 sq. km)
Total area (2000) :
521.097820 sq. miles (1349.637100 sq. km)
Located within :
South Dakota (SD), FIPS 46
Location :
44.014833 N, 96.658939 W