MOODIEST

MOODY

moody, temperamental

(adjective) subject to sharply varying moods; “a temperamental opera singer”

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

(adjective) 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”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Adjective

moodiest

superlative form of moody: most moody

Anagrams

• Sodomite, doomiest, sodomite

Source: Wiktionary


MOODY

Mood"y, a. [Compar. Moodier; superl. Moodiest.] Etym: [AS. modig 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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