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Definition: Moody |
MoodyAdjective1. 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". 2. Subject to sharply varying moods; "a temperamental opera singer". Noun1. United States tennis player who dominated women's tennis in the 1920s and 1930s (born in 1906). 2. United States evangelist (1837-1899). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "moody" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Note: Moody \Mood"y\, adjective. [Comparative Moodier; superlative Moodiest.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: MoodySynonyms: dark (adj), dour (adj), glowering (adj), glum (adj), morose (adj), saturnine (adj), sour (adj), sullen (adj), temperamental (adj). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Moody is a city located in McLennan County, Texas. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 1,400.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Moody, Alabama."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Dejection | Melancholy as a gib cat; oppressed with melancholy, a prey to melancholy; downcast, downhearted; down in the mouth, down in one;s luck; heavy-hearted; in the dumps, down in the dumps, in the suds, in the sulks, in the doldrums; in doleful dumps, in bad humor; sullen; mumpish, dumpish, mopish, moping; moody, glum; sulky; (discontented); out of sorts, out of humor, out of heart, out of spirits; ill at ease, low spirited, in low spirits, a cup too low; weary; discouraged, disheartened; desponding; chapfallen, chopfallen, jaw fallen, crest fallen. |
Excitability | Feverish, febrile, hysterical; delirious, mad, moody, maggoty-headed. |
Sullenness | Moody; spleenish, spleenly; splenetic, cankered. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Moody |
| English words defined with "moody": cheerless ♦ dark, dean, dour, Dwight Lyman Moody ♦ glowering, glum ♦ Helen Wills Moody, huffish, Humorsome ♦ James Byron Dean, James Dean ♦ moodily, Moodish, morose, moroseness ♦ saturnine, sour, sourness, sulkiness, sulky, sullen, sullenness ♦ uncheerful. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "moody": Dying Sayings ♦ Jews ♦ Peg too Low. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | They think you're moody, make 'em think you're crazy. (Pump Up the Volume; writing credit: Allan Moyle) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Moody Beach (1990) | |
Song Titles | MOODY RIVER (performing artist: Pat Boone ) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Theater & Movies | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
![]() | Staff Sgt. Chad Reed, 19th Special Operations Squadron, briefs visiting recruiters from the 336th Recruiting Squadron, based at Moody Air Force Base, Ga., on the 40mm gun and the 19th SOS's mission qualification course. The three recruiters were at Hurlb. | ![]() | Marsh at sunset in Moody County, South Dakota. Credit: Don Poggensee. |
![]() | Black farmer John Moody examins his corn in Jones County, MS. Credit: USDA. | ![]() | African American farmer, John Moody checks his pecans trees in Jones County, MS. Credit: USDA. |
![]() | "During the many long weeks of healing the patients must use wheelchairs and crutches until they learn how to walk with a synthetic limb. Shown is PFC Charles Moody of Institute, West Virginia, who was injured near Taegu, Korea, while serving with the First Cavalry Division." Photograph was probably taken at Walter Reed Army Hospital, Washington, DC. Quoted sentences are from the original caption, released with the photo on 1 February 1951. Credit: NAVY. | ![]() | Receive commendations from the Secretary of the Navy, in his Navy Department office, shortly after the airship's loss on 4 April 1933. Those present are (from left to right): Assistant Secretary of the Navy Henry A. Roosevelt; Secretary of the Navy Claude Swanson; Admiral William V. Pratt, Chief of Naval Operations; Lieutenant Commander Herbert V. Wiley, senior survivor; Boatswain's Mate 2nd Class Richard E. Deal, survivor; and Aviation Metalsmith 2nd Class Moody Erwin, survivor. Erwin, whose left hand is bandaged, is apparently wearing a borrowed uniform, as its insignia is that of a Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class. Credit: NAVY. |
![]() | Leopold Seyffert painting portrait of Helen Wills Moody. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Andrew Moody and wife Tildy, ex-slave, Orange. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Cottage of Geo. Moody, Harbor Beach. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Residence of Rev. D.L. Moody, East Northfield, Mass. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Dwight L. Moody | Character is what you are in the dark. |
| By the grace of God, I'll be that man. | |
| A good example is far better than a good precept. | |
| God never made a promise that was too good to be true. | |
| Where one man reads the Bible, a hundred read you and me. | |
| Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy. | |
| The Bible will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from the Bible. | |
| If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of itself. | |
| There's no better book with which to defend the Bible than the Bible itself. | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | In this same year, 1823, Thenardier owed about fifteen hundred francs, of pressing debts, which rendered him moody. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Moody and silent. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Some people think that women may be more moody, irritable, or depressed around the time of menopause. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Marla Hanson | Well, it was the perfect place. It was dark and moody and artsy. And I thought, well, what a place to contemplate life or death. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Moody" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 50.98% of the time. "Moody" is used about 357 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 50.98% | 182 | 22,870 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 48.74% | 174 | 23,577 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.28% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 357 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "moody" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Moody | Last name | 28,000 | 401 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
1. Moody, AL (town, FIPS 51096) 2. Moody, MO 3. Moody, TX (town, FIPS 49200) |
Expressions using "moody": be moody ♦ dour glowering glum moody morose saturnine sour sullen ♦ Dwight Lyman Moody ♦ Helen Wills Moody ♦ Moody AFB ♦ Moody County. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "moody": Moody-sankey. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
moody blues | 1,378 | galveston garden moody tx | 33 |
moody garden | 883 | anne moody | 32 |
moody | 352 | moody blues concert | 30 |
moody bible institute | 344 | canada moody port | 28 |
moody garden galveston | 130 | moody beach maine | 25 |
moody bible | 102 | moody broadcasting | 25 |
moody blues lyrics | 101 | moody blues discography | 25 |
moody afb | 92 | raymond moody | 24 |
moody garden hotel | 79 | moody magazine | 23 |
moody air force base | 72 | d.l moody | 22 |
port moody | 65 | holman moody | 21 |
galveston garden moody texas | 58 | d l moody | 21 |
bible college moody | 52 | eye mad moody | 21 |
moody radio | 46 | blues in lyrics moody night satin white | 19 |
moody investor service | 46 | moody s.com | 19 |
moody press | 45 | blues moody ray thomas | 19 |
afb ga valdosta moody | 43 | dl moody | 18 |
city moody port | 41 | moody rating | 18 |
church moody | 37 | dwight l moody | 18 |
bank moody national | 35 | moody beach | 17 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "moody"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | Me Humor Të Rëndë, Me Humor Të Ndryshëm. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | كئيب (bleak, blue, cheerless, damp, dark, dejected, depressed, depressing, depressive, desolate, disconsolate, dismal, dispirited, distressful, distressing, doleful, dolorous, down, downcast, down-hearted, drear, dreary, droopy, dyspeptic, funeral, funereal, gloomy, glum, gray, grey, grief-stricken, grieved, grievous, heavy-hearted, ill, joyless, leaden, lifeless, low-spirited, melancholic, melancholy, mournful, out of spirits, rueful, sad, saddening, somber, sombre, spiritless, sullen, tearful, weary), متقلب المزاج, متقلب (capricious, changeable, changeful, choppy, fickle, flighty, fluctuant, fluky, freakish, incalculable, inconsistent, inconstant, jumpy, mercurial, mobile, mutable, reversible, rough and tumble, shaky, skittish, temperamental, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, variable, versatile, volatile, wavering, wayward, weather vane, whimsical, yeasty), نكد (chafe, distemper, fractious, grouchiness, moodiness, peevish, pettish, petulant, querulous, somber, sombre, splenetic, sulk, sullen, testy, vex, vinegar). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | Подтиснат, На Настроения, Унил (down in the mouth), ' Лошо Настроение, С Променлив Характер, аздразнителен. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 喜' 常. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | Mrzutý (annoying, awkward, bad tempered, chuff, crabbed, cranky, cross, crusty, dumpish, frumpish, glum, grouchy, joyless, out of temper, peevish, pettish, rugged, sulky, sullen, surly, testy, untoward, vexatious), Náladový (capricious, crotchety, erratic, freakish, temperamental, whimsical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | ترشرو (Acid, Dogged, Gruff, Grumpy, Morose, Petulant, Rusty, Sulky, Sullen), عبوس (Grim, Lower, Morose, Peevish, Rusty, Stern, Sulky, Sullen), اخمو, بدخلق (Cantankerous, Crosspatch, Dyspeptic, Grouchy, Gruff, Grumpy, Ornery, Ramshackle, Rowdyish), بداخلاق (Acid, Bad, Dissolute, Immoral, Impatient, Licentious, Rabid, Rake, Reprobate, Vile). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | synkkä (bleak, dark, desolate, dreary, gloomy, sullen), huonotuulinen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | Morne (mournful), Mal Luné, Lunatique, D'humeur Changeante, De Mauvaise Humeur. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Launisch (capricious, changeable, fickle, freakish, mood, moodily, perverse, pettish, pettishly, petulant, sulkily, temperamental, temperamentally, vagarious, wayward). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | Ιδιότροποσ, άθυμοσ (crestfallen, depressed, exanimate, mopish, sad, spiritless, sulky, vaporish), Σκυθρωπόσ, ίακόκεφοσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ־שועמם, ־"וכ"ך, ־צוברח. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szeszélyes (be capricious, capricious, changeful, erratic, fanciful, fickle, fitful, freakish, have a little finger ache, have moods, kinky, maggoty, mercurial, peevish, petulant, skittish, wanton, whimsical), Kedvetlen (dejected, half hearted, listless, mumpish, out of humour, out of spirits, pettish, sour, stuporous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | triste (black, bleak, blue, blue-deviled, blue-devilled, cheerless, dark, dejected, disconsolate, dismal, doleful, dreary, dull, dusky, gaunt, gloomy, heavy, hipped, lachrymose, miserable, moped, sad, somber, sombre, sorrowful, sorry, sullen, unhappy, wan, woebegone), Lunatico (lunar, lunatic, temperamental, whimsical), Di Malumore. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | ミンク鯨 (minced beef, mince-meat, mince-pie, minke whale, mint, mint julep, mood, mood conditioning, Moore, moose, mousse, mouton, mucho, Muse, peppermint, piked whale), 気難しい (crusty, fastidious, hard to please), 気紛れ (caprice, fickle, uneven temper, whim, whimsy), 気まぐれ (caprice, fickle, uneven temper, whim, whimsy), 斑気 (capricious, whimsical), 暗 (dark-natured, dour, glum, insular, introverted, pessimistic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ーディー , ねくら (dark-natured, dour, glum, insular, introverted, pessimistic), きまぐれ (caprice, fickle, uneven temper, whim, whimsy), きむずかしい (crusty, fastidious, hard to please), きむづかしい (crusty, fastidious, hard to please), むらき (capricious, whimsical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | teaymagh (capricious, fickle, fitful, freakish, humoursome, notional, spasmodic, wavering, whimsical), groamey (depressing, depressive, ill-tempered, joyless, sepulchral, sombre). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oodymay Melancólico (atrabilious, bleak, blue, cloudy, dark, desolate, dismal, dreary, dredge, dumpish, gaunt, gloomy, low-spiritedness, melancholic, melancholy, mopish, morose, mournful, mourning, pensive, sad, somber, sombre), Mal-humorado (bad tempered, cantankerous, choleric, crusty, glum, ill timed, ill-humoured, illiberal, mumpish, snappish, snappy, snotty, splenetic, sulky, sullen, surly, techy, testy, tetchy), Triste (bleak, blue, broken hearted, cheerless, dark, desolate, dire, discontent, dismal, dismantle, dolichocephalic, dreary, dumpling, dun, gaunt, gloomily, Gray, grey, joylessly, long, lugubriousness, melancholy, mirthless, miserable, misty, moppet, mouse, painful, painfully, penstock, pitfall, sad, saturnine, somber, sombre, sore, sorrowful, sorry, tearful, tristful, unhappy, upset), Taciturno (morose, mumpish, reticent, silent, spleenful, sullen, taciturn, uncommunicative), Rabugento (acrimonious, atrabilious, brutal, criss cross, crusty, currish, faultless, fiddle-faddle, fractious, fretfulness, frustrate, Grove, gruff, harsh, morose, peevish, pettish, querulous, rough, shrewish, snuffy, sour, sullen, surly, techy, testy, tetchy, unkind, unpleasant), Humor (espy, frame, humor, humour, mood, phlegmatic, wit), Carrancudo (beetle, beetling, glum, sulky, sullen, surly). (various references) Supãrat (angry, cross, furious, irritated, magged, peeved, peevishly, petulantly, poutingly, sad, snuffy, sulky, sullen, sullenly), Schimbãtor (capricious, catching, changeable, chequered, choppy, fickle, inconstant, mobile, moonish, mutable, shifty, slippery, switch, unequal, unsettled, unsteady, variable, varied, versatile, volatile), Prost Dispus (ill disposed, ill tempered, ill-affected, ill-conditioned, ill-humored, ill-humoured, in a bad temper, mopish), Iritat (edgy, irate, magged, peeved, peevish, peevishly, rasping, resentful), Indispus (ailing, distempered, hipped, in a pet, indisposed, out of order, out of temper, poorly, queer, seedy, unwell, upset), Cu Toane (capricious, fanciful, fancy, maggoty, wayward, whimsical, whimsy). (various references) Угрюмый, Унылый. (various references) sumoran (adust, atrabilious, bleak, dismal, gloomy, mirk, murk, sullen), potišten (chap-fallen, crestfallen, crest-fallen, dejected, depressed, despondent, dispirited, down in the mouth, down-hearted, hangdog, heavy-laden, mopish, unhappy), ćudljiv (gnomish, jerky, skittish, vagarious, whimsical). (various references) De Humor Cambiante. (various references) Trumpen (glum, morose, sulky, sullen), Retlig (crabbed, fretful, fretting, ill tempered, irritable, peevish, pettish, snappy, snuffy, testy, touchy, waspish), Lynnig. (various references) หงุ"หงิ" (fidgety). (various references) Karamsar Kimse (calamity howler, croak, croaker, Jeremiah, pessimist), Kıl (as cool as cucumber, bristle, hair, hairy, trichome), Huysuz (acrimonious, as cross as two sticks, bad tempered, bilious, cantankerous, churlish, crabbed, crabby, crank, cranky, cross-grained, crosspatch, crotchety, crusty, cursed, difficult, disagreeable, disgruntled, doggish, farouche, fractious, fretful, gnarled, grouchy, gruff, grumbling, grumpy, ill natured, ill tempered, ill-humored, ill-humoured, liverish, mean, out of humour, out of sorts, peeved, peevish, peppery, perverse, pettish, petulant, prickly, quarrelsome, querulous, ratty, rusty, shirty, snappish, spleenful, spleenish, splenetic, stroppy, sulky, surly, tetchy, thrawn, ugly, untoward, vicious, vixenish, waspish, wildcat, wrongheaded), Dengesiz (astatic, deranged, immoderate, inequable, lop-sided, non compos, non compos mentis, off one's rocker, out-of-balance, unbalanced, uncompensated, uneven, unstable), Bunalım (blues, crisis, depression, dismay, down, megrims, melancholy, shock, the megrims). (various references) Що Легко Підда"ться Змінам Настрою, Смутний, З Поганим Характером. (various references) bu"n rầu (black, chap-fallen, darkly, morose, mournful, rueful, sad, sadly, sorrowful, sullen, woebegone, woeful, woefully, woesome), ủ r (mopish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Moody" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: doody, foody, joody, moddy, modey, modie, modo, Modood, Mody, mojod, Molody, Momodu, moode, moodly, Mooey, mooly, moosy, Mootty, mooty, moty, mougy, moundy, mozy, Mudi, mudy, Murdy, Myod, myotomy, nody, nudy, odoy, poody. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "moody" (pronounced muw"dē) |
| 3 | -uw" d ē | broody. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: doomy. | |
| Words within the letters "d-m-o-o-y" | |
-1 letter: doom, mood. | |
-2 letters: dom, mod, moo, yod, yom. | |
-3 letters: do, mo, my, od, om, oy, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-m-o-o-y" | |
+1 letter: monody, sodomy. | |
+2 letters: dayroom, doomily, moodily. | |
+3 letters: coembody, dayrooms, doomsday, homebody, monopody, myriopod, odometry, somebody. | |
+4 letters: commodify, commodity, condyloma, dichotomy, doomfully, doomsayer, doomsdays, dormitory, dynamotor, monkeypod, myriopods. | |
+5 letters: admonitory, coemployed, composedly, condylomas, demonology, dictyosome, diseconomy, doomsayers, doomsaying, doomsdayer, dynamotors, endomorphy, lycopodium, modulatory, monkeypods, monohybrid, monohydric, monorhymed. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 6F 6F 64 79 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01101111 01101111 01100100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M o o d y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 006F 006F 0064 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4781817091 |
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