mood
/muːd/ noun, interjection
Forms moods
- noun A mental or emotional state, composure. “I've been in a bad mood since I was dumped by my ex-boyfriend.”
- noun Emotional character (of a work of music, literature, or other art).
- noun A sullen, gloomy or angry mental state; a bad mood. “He's in a mood with me today.”
- noun A disposition to do something, a state of mind receptive or disposed to do something. “I'm not in the mood for running today.”
- noun A prevalent atmosphere, attitude, or feeling. “A good politician senses the mood of the crowd.”
- noun (slang) A familiar, relatable feeling, experience, or thing.
- interjection (slang) Used to express that the speaker finds something very relatable. “—I am feeling very exhausted today. —Mood.”
- noun (grammar) A verb form that depends on how its containing clause relates to the speaker’s or writer’s wish, intent, or assertion about reality. “The mood most frequently encountered in English is the indicative, of which the mood in this sentence is an example.”
Synonyms
composure humor spirit temperament huff pet temper frame of mind vibe big mood grammatical mood mode humour climate modality
Antonyms
Etymology
From Middle English mood, mode, mod, from Old English mōd (“mind,” in poetry also “heart, spirit, courage”), from Proto-West Germanic *mōd, from Proto-Germanic *mōdaz (“sense, courage, zeal, anger”), from Proto-Indo-European *moh₁-, *meh₁- (“endeavour, will, temper”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Moud (“courage”), West Frisian moed (“courage; mind; spirit; will; intention”), Dutch moed (“bravery, courage; mood”), German Mut (“bravery, courage; mood”), German Low German Mood (“boldness, bravery, courage”), Luxembourgish Mutt (“courage”), Yiddish מוט (mut, “bravery, courage”), Danish and Swedish mod (“courage”), Faroese and Icelandic móður (“anger, wrath; fierce mood”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk mot (“courage”), Gothic 𐌼𐍉𐌸𐍃 (mōþs, “mood; anger”), Vandalic *muths (“mind”); also Latin mōs (“behavior, conduct, manner; inclination, temperament; humour, will”), Bulgarian сме́я (sméja, “to dare”), Czech smět (“to be allowed; may”), Macedonian сме́е (smée, “to be allowed”), Polish śmieć (“dare”), Russian сметь (smetʹ, “to dare”), Serbo-Croatian сме̏ти, смје̏ти, smȅti, smjȅti (“to dare, venture”), Slovak smieť (“to be allowed; may”), Slovene smeti (“to be allowed; may”) Ukrainian смі́ти (smíty, “to dare”).
Alteration of mode, from Latin modus, with specialized uses in grammar, music and logic.
Webster’s 1913
- noun Manner; style; mode; logical form; musical style; manner of action or being. See Mode which is the preferable form).
- noun 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.
- noun Temper of mind; temporary state of the mind in regard to passion or feeling; humor; as, a melancholy mood; a suppliant mood.
Etymology [The same word as mode, perh. influenced by mood temper. See Mode.]
Etymology [OE. mood, mod, AS. modmind, feeling, heart, courage; akin to OS. & OFries. mod, D. moed, OHG. muot, G. muth, mut, courage, Dan. & Sw. mod, Icel. mo wrath, Goth. mods.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “mood”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details