'Mood' definitions:
Definition of 'mood'
(from WordNet)
noun
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, mood, humor, humour]
noun
The prevailing psychological state; "the climate of opinion"; "the national mood had changed radically since the last election" [syn: climate, mood]
noun
Definition of 'Mood'
From: GCIDE
- 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][eth]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. [1913 Webster]
- Till at the last aslaked was his mood. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- Fortune is merry, And in this mood will give us anything. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- The desperate recklessness of her mood. --Hawthorne. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Mood'
From: GCIDE
- Mood \Mood\ (m[=oo]d), 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). [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Gram.) Manner of conceiving and expressing action or being, as positive, possible, conditional, hypothetical, obligatory, imperitive, etc., without regard to other accidents, such as time, person, number, etc.; as, the indicative mood; the imperitive mood; the infinitive mood; the subjunctive mood. Same as Mode. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'mood'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- action,
- affection,
- air,
- anagnorisis,
- angle,
- architectonics,
- architecture,
- argument,
- Aristotelian sorites,
- 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,
- Goclenian sorites,
- 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