Definitions for: Moody

[n] United States evangelist (1837-1899)
[n] United States tennis player who dominated women's tennis in the 1920s and 1930s (born in 1906)
[adj] subject to sharply varying moods; "a temperamental opera singer"
[adj] 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"

Webster (1913) Definition: 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.

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.

Synonyms: dark, dour, Dwight Lyman Moody, emotional, glowering, glum, Helen Newington Wills, Helen Wills, Helen Wills Moody, ill-natured, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen, temperamental

See Also: evangelist, gospeler, gospeller, revivalist, tennis player

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