moody
Noun
- United States tennis player who dominated women's tennis in the 1920s and 1930s (1905-1998)
- United States evangelist (1837-1899)
Adjective Satellite
- showing a brooding ill humor; ; ; ; ; ; - Bruce Bliven
- "he sat in moody silence"
- subject to sharply varying moods
Adj
- Given to sudden or frequent changes of mind; temperamental.
- Sulky or depressed.
- Dour, gloomy or brooding.
- Of dubious origin; counterfeit or stolen.
Adjective
- Given to unpredictable changes of mood; temperamental.
Examples
- The ’MOODY’ tiles seemed to conspire against him, offering only difficult combinations.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English mody, modi, from Old English mōdiġ (“brave”), from Proto-Germanic *mōdagaz (“courageous”). By surface analysis, mood + -y.
Synonyms
dark, dour, Dwight Lyman Moody, glowering, glum, Helen Newington Wills, Helen Wills, Helen Wills Moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen, temperamental, atrabiliary, atrabilious, bleak, blitheless, blue, bummed out, capricious, chapfallen, cheerless, chopfallen, comfortless, crestfallen, cut up, damp, dejected, depressed, depressing, desolate, despondent, dire, disconsolate, disgruntled, disheartened, dismal, dodgy, doleful, dolesome, down, down in the dumps, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, downsome, drear, drearisome, dreary, dreich, dull, elegiac, elegious, fickle, forlorn, gayless, gloomsome, gloomy, gray, grief-stricken, grieving, grim, grouchy, gruff, heartsick, heartsore, heavy-hearted, ill-humored, ill-tempered, inconsolable, infelicitous, jawfallen, joyless, lachrymose, lack-laughter, lamentful, low, low-spirited, lugubrious, lumpish, melancholic, melancholy, mirthless, miserable, moody, mopey, mournful, no joke, passionate, plaintive, querulous, sad, saddened, shattered, solemn, somber, sombre, sorrow-ridden, sorrowful, sorrowsome, spiritless, sulky, sunless, threnetic, threnetical, triste, tristful, uncheerful, uncheery, unconsolable, unhappy, unlively, unmerry, wintry, wistful, woe, woebegone, woeful, wretched
Scrabble Score: 11
moody: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordmoody: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
moody: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary