temper, mood, humor, humour
(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”
mood, mode, modality
(noun) verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker
climate, mood
(noun) the prevailing psychological state; “the climate of opinion”; “the national mood had changed radically since the last election”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
mood (plural moods)
A mental or emotional state, composure.
Synonyms: composure, humor, spirit, temperament
Emotional character (of a work of music, literature, or other art).
A sullen, gloomy or angry mental state; a bad mood.
Synonyms: huff, pet, temper
Antonyms: good humour, good mood, good spirits
A disposition to do something, a state of mind receptive or disposed to do something.
Synonyms: huff, frame of mind
A prevalent atmosphere, attitude, or feeling.
(slang) A familiar, relatable feeling, experience, or thing.
Synonym: big mood
(obsolete, Northern England and Scotland) Courage, heart, valor; also vim and vigor.
• Adjectives often used with "mood": good, bad, foul.
• The phrase with main and mood means "with all one's might".
mood (plural moods)
(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.
Synonyms: grammatical mood, mode
• See also grammatical mood
• Doom, Odom, doom
Source: Wiktionary
Mood, n. Etym: [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).
2. (Gram.)
Definition: 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.
Mood, n. Etym: [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.]
Definition: Temper of mind; temporary state of the mind in regard to passion or feeling; humor; as, a melancholy mood; a suppliant mood. Till at the last aslaked was mood. Chaucer. Fortune is merry, And in this mood will give us anything. Shak. The desperate recklessness of her mood. Hawthorne.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 December 2024
(noun) Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruit
Contrary to popular belief, coffee beans are not technically beans. They are referred to as such because of their resemblance to legumes. A coffee bean is a seed of the Coffea plant and the source for coffee. It is the pit inside the red or purple fruit, often referred to as a cherry. Just like ordinary cherries, the coffee fruit is also a so-called stone fruit.
