What does "mood" mean?
A mental or emotional state, composure.
Mood
/muːd/ intj, noun, slang
intj, noun, slang ·Common ·Middle school level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: A mental or emotional state, composure.
- Grammar: mood is listed as intj, noun, slang.
- Nearest alternatives: action, affect, affect mood, affect performance.
- Useful contrasts: calmness, indifference.
- Usage evidence: When you travel abroad, you start to feel very expansive, and it's easy to overspend in a mood like that.
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A mental or emotional state, composure.
"I've been in a bad mood since I was dumped by my ex-boyfriend."
- 2 A verb form that depends on how its containing clause relates to the speaker’s or writer’s wish, intent, or assertion about reality.
"The mood most frequently encountered in English is the indicative, of which the mood in this sentence is an example."
- 3 a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling wordnet
- 4 Emotional character (of a work of music, literature, or other art).
"Whatever the mood of her music, funky or romantic, upbeat or blue, sophisticated or simple, her fans get the message. And as long as the word comes from Natalie, they adore it, turning every one of her albums to gold or platinum."
- 5 verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker wordnet
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- 6 A sullen, gloomy or angry mental state; a bad mood.
"He's in a mood with me today."
- 7 the prevailing psychological state wordnet
- 8 A disposition to do something, a state of mind receptive or disposed to do something.
"I'm not in the mood for running today."
- 9 A prevalent atmosphere, attitude, or feeling.
"A good politician senses the mood of the crowd."
- 10 A familiar, relatable feeling, experience, or thing. slang
"“I'm only here for a night. I'm road tripping with a friend and he decided we needed a queer bar, stat.” “Oh, that's a whole mood.”"
Intj
- 1 Used to express that the speaker finds something very relatable. slang
"—I am feeling very exhausted today. —Mood."
Synonyms
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Example
"When you travel abroad, you start to feel very expansive, and it's easy to overspend in a mood like that."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "mood"?
Common synonyms include: action, affect, affect mood, affect performance, affect study results, affecting.
How do you use "mood" in a sentence?
When you travel abroad, you start to feel very expansive, and it's easy to overspend in a mood like that.
How do you pronounce "mood"?
Pronounced /muːd/.
Etymology
Etymology 1
From Middle English mood, mode, mod, from Old English mōd (“mind,” in poetry also “heart, spirit, courage”), from Proto-West Germanic *mōd, from Proto-Germanic *mōdaz (“sense, courage, zeal, anger”), from Proto-Indo-European *moh₁-, *meh₁- (“endeavour, will, temper”). Cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian Moud (“courage”), West Frisian moed (“courage; mind; spirit; will; intention”), Dutch moed (“bravery, courage; mood”), German Mut, Muth (“bravery, courage; mood”), German Low German Mood (“boldness, bravery, courage”), Luxembourgish Mutt (“courage”), Yiddish מוט (mut, “bravery, courage”), Danish and Swedish mod (“courage”), Faroese and Icelandic móður (“anger, wrath; fierce mood”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk mot (“courage”), Gothic 𐌼𐍉𐌸𐍃 (mōþs, “mood; anger”), Vandalic *muths (“mind”); also Latin mōs (“behavior, conduct, manner; inclination, temperament; humour, will”), Bulgarian сме́я (sméja, “to dare”), Czech smět (“to be allowed; may”), Macedonian сме́е (smée, “to be allowed”), Polish śmieć (“dare”), Russian сметь (smetʹ, “to dare”), Serbo-Croatian сме̏ти, смје̏ти, smȅti, smjȅti (“to dare, venture”), Slovak smieť (“to be allowed; may”), Slovene smeti (“to be allowed; may”) Ukrainian смі́ти (smíty, “to dare”).
Etymology 2
Alteration of mode, from Latin modus, with specialized uses in grammar, music and logic.