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mood
1[ mood ]
noun
- a state or quality of feeling at a particular time:
What's the boss' mood today?
Synonyms: state of mind, frame of mind, disposition, humor, temper
- a distinctive emotional quality or character:
The mood of the music was almost funereal.
- a prevailing emotional tone or general attitude:
the country's mood.
- a frame of mind disposed or receptive, as to some activity or thing:
I'm not in the mood to see a movie.
- a state of sullenness, gloom, or bad temper.
mood
2[ mood ]
noun
- Grammar.
- a set of categories for which the verb is inflected in many languages, and that is typically used to indicate the syntactic relation of the clause in which the verb occurs to other clauses in the sentence, or the attitude of the speaker toward what they are saying, such as certainty or uncertainty, wish or command, emphasis or hesitancy.
- a set of syntactic devices in some languages that is similar to this set in function or meaning, involving the use of auxiliary words, such as can, may, might.
- any of the categories of these sets:
the Latin indicative, imperative, and subjunctive moods.
- Logic. a classification of categorical syllogisms by the use of three letters that name, respectively, the major premise, the minor premise, and the conclusion.
mood
1/ muːd /
noun
- grammar a category of the verb or verbal inflections that expresses semantic and grammatical differences, including such forms as the indicative, subjunctive, and imperative
- See figurelogic one of the possible arrangements of the syllogism, classified solely by whether the component propositions are universal or particular and affirmative or negative Compare figure
mood
2/ muːd /
noun
- a temporary state of mind or temper
a cheerful mood
- a sullen or gloomy state of mind, esp when temporary
she's in a mood
- a prevailing atmosphere or feeling
- in the moodin the mood in a favourable state of mind (for something or to do something)
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Idioms and Phrases
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Example Sentences
And what he said on June 5, 1985 fits the mood of the moment three decades later.
Alan Gross was in a cheery mood, having survived a grim five-year stint in a Cuban prison.
I remember very clearly the public mood after the 9/11 attacks.
But now everything was a good pretext to vent the rebellious mood.
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The afternoon was a lovely one—the day was a perfect example of the mellowest mood of autumn.
She gave details of the singular mood that had come upon her with the arrival of Tony, but Tom hardly heard her.
A fearsome thunderstorm or howling tornado of dust might reveal her fickleness of mood at any moment.
Lady Victoria's earlier mood of colossal indifference had been dissipated by her son's return.
When she struck the chord of G minor, it was the right preparation, and brought you immediately into the mood for what followed.
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