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Moody

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Noun

1. helen newington wills, helen wills, helen wills moody, moody

United States tennis player who dominated women's tennis in the 1920s and 1930s (1905-1998)

2. dwight lyman moody, moody

United States evangelist (1837-1899)

Adjective

3. dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen

showing a brooding ill humor

Example Sentences:
'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'
'a sour temper'
'a sullen crowd'

4. moody, temperamental

subject to sharply varying moods

Example Sentences:
'a temperamental opera singer'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Moody

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adjectiveWord forms: moodier or moodiest
1. 
sullen, sulky, or gloomy
2. 
temperamental or changeable
noun
Dwight Lyman. 1837–99, US evangelist and hymnodist, noted for his revivalist campaigns in Britain and the US with I. D. Sankey

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Moody

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1. 
ˈDwight Lyman (ˈlaɪmən ) ; līˈmən) 1837-99; U.S. Christian evangelist
2. 
William Vaughn1869-1910; U.S. poet & playwright
adjectiveWord forms: ˈmoodier or ˈmoodiest
1. 
subject to or characterized by gloomy, sullen moods or changes of mood
2. 
resulting from or indicating such a mood

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Moody

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adj. mood·i·er, mood·i·est
1. Given to frequent changes of mood; temperamental.
2. Subject to periods of depression; sulky.
3. Expressive of a mood, especially a sullen or gloomy mood: a moody silence.

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