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moody

 

  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Moody  \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. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  moody 
  adj  1:  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"  [syn:  {dark},  {dour},  {glowering}, 
  {glum},  {morose},  {saturnine},  {sour},  {sullen}] 
  2:  subject  to  sharply  varying  moods;  "a  temperamental  opera 
  singer"  [syn:  {temperamental}] 
 
  From  U.S.  Gazetteer  (1990)  [gazetteer]: 
 
  Moody,  AL  (town,  FIPS  51096) 
  Location:  33.59693  N,  86.49463  W 
  Population  (1990):  4921  (1845  housing  units) 
  Area:  28.6  sq  km  (land),  0.2  sq  km  (water) 
  Moody,  MO 
  Zip  code(s):  65777 
  Moody,  TX  (town,  FIPS  49200) 
  Location:  31.30844  N,  97.36025  W 
  Population  (1990):  1329  (573  housing  units) 
  Area:  2.1  sq  km  (land),  0.0  sq  km  (water) 
  Zip  code(s):  76557




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