Meaning & Definition of Moody in English
English⟶
Moody
/mudi/
noun
1. United states tennis player who dominated women's tennis in the 1920s and 1930s (1905-1998)
synonym:
- Moody,
- Helen Wills Moody,
- Helen Wills,
- Helen Newington Wills
2. United states evangelist (1837-1899)
synonym:
- Moody,
- Dwight Lyman Moody
adjective
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"
synonym:
- dark,
- dour,
- glowering,
- glum,
- moody,
- morose,
- saturnine,
- sour,
- sullen
2. Subject to sharply varying moods
- "A temperamental opera singer"
synonym:
- moody,
- temperamental
Examples of using
Everyone is entitled to be moody once in a while.