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–noun

1.	a state or quality of feeling at a particular time: What's the boss' mood today?

2.	a distinctive emotional quality or character: The mood of the music was almost funereal.

3.	a prevailing emotional tone or general attitude: the country's mood.

4.	a frame of mind disposed or receptive, as to some activity or thing: I'm not in the mood to see a movie.

5.	a state of sullenness, gloom, or bad temper.

[Origin: bef. 900; ME; OE mōd mind, spirit; courage; c. G Mut, Goth mōths courage, ON mōthr anger

]

—Synonyms 1. temper, humor, disposition, inclination.

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–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 he or she is saying, as certainty or uncertainty, wish or command, emphasis or hesitancy.

b.	a set of syntactic devices in some languages that is similar to this set in function or meaning, involving the use of auxiliary words, as can, may, might.

c.	any of the categories of these sets: the Latin indicative, imperative, and subjunctive moods.

2.	Logic. a classification of categorical syllogisms by the use of three letters that name, respectively, the major premise, the minor premise, and the conclusion.

Also called mode.

[Origin: 1525–35; special use of mood¹ by influence of mode¹

]

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mood¹ Audio Help (mōōd) Pronunciation Key
n.

A state of mind or emotion.
A pervading impression of an observer: the somber mood of the painting.
An incidence of sulking or angry behavior.
Inclination; disposition.

[Middle English mod, from Old English mōd, disposition; see mē-¹ in Indo-European roots.]

Synonyms: These nouns refer to a temporary state of mind or feeling. Mood is the most inclusive: "I was in no mood to laugh and talk with strangers" (Mary Shelley).
Humor often implies a state of mind resulting from one's characteristic disposition or temperament: "All which had been done . . . was the effect not of humor, but of system" (Edmund Burke).
Temper most often refers to irritability or intense anger: "The nation was in such a temper that the smallest spark might raise a flame" (Thomas Macaulay).

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n.

Grammar A set of verb forms or inflections used to indicate the speaker's attitude toward the factuality or likelihood of the action or condition expressed. In English the indicative mood is used to make factual statements, the subjunctive mood to indicate doubt or unlikelihood, and the imperative mood to express a command.
Logic The arrangement or form of a syllogism.

[Alteration of mode.]

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mood (1)

"emotional condition, frame of mind," O.E. mod "heart, frame of mind, spirit, courage," from P.Gmc. *motha- (cf. O.Fris. mod "intellect, mind, courage," O.N. moðr "wrath, anger," M.Du. moet, Du. moed, O.H.G. muot, Ger. Mut "courage," Goth. moþs "courage, anger"), of unknown origin. A much more vigorous word in Anglo-Saxon than currently, and used widely in compounds (e.g. modcræftig "intelligent," modful "proud"). Moody is from O.E. modig "brave, proud, high-spirited;" meaning "subject to gloomy spells" is first recorded 1593 (via a M.E. sense of "angry"). To be in the mood "willing (to do something)" is from 1589. First record of mood swings is from 1942.

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mood (2)

"grammatical form indicating the function of a verb," 1569, an alteration of mode (1), but the grammatical and musical (1597) usages of it influenced the meaning of mood (1) in phrases such as light-hearted mood.

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mood
noun
1.	a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling; "whether he praised or cursed me depended on his temper at the time"; "he was in a bad humor" [syn: temper]
2.	the prevailing psychological state; "the climate of opinion"; "the national mood had changed radically since the last election" [syn: climate]
3.	verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker

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mood

see in a bad mood; in the mood.

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mood [muːd] noun

the state of a person's feelings, temper, mind etc at a particular time
Example: What kind of mood is she in?; I'm in a bad mood today.

Arabic:	مِزاج، حالَه نَفْسِيَّه
Chinese (Simplified):	心情
Chinese (Traditional):	心情
Czech:	nálada
Danish:	humør
Dutch:	stemming
Estonian:	tuju
Finnish:	mieliala, tuuli
French:	humeur
German:	die Stimmung
Greek:	διάθεση
Hungarian:	hangulat
Icelandic:	skap
Indonesian:	suasana hati
Italian:	umore

Japanese:	気分
Korean:	기분, 감정, 무드, 분위기
Latvian:	noskaņojums; garastāvoklis
Lithuanian:	nuotaika
Norwegian:	humør, lune, sinnsstemning
Polish:	nastrój
Portuguese (Brazil):	humor
Portuguese (Portugal):	humor
Romanian:	dispoziţie
Russian:	настроение
Slovak:	nálada
Slovenian:	razpoloženje
Spanish:	humor
Swedish:	sinnesstämning, humör
Turkish:	ruhsal durum

See also: moody

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mood ¹ (m&oomacr;d)
n.
A state of mind or emotion.

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Main Entry: mood
Pronunciation: 'müd
Function: noun
: a conscious state of mind or predominant emotion : affective state : FEELING 3

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Mode\, n. [L. modus a measure, due or proper measure, bound, manner, form; akin to E. mete: cf. F. mode. See Mete, and cf. Commodious, Mood in grammar, Modus.]

1. Manner of doing or being; method; form; fashion; custom; way; style; as, the mode of speaking; the mode of dressing.

The duty of itself being resolved on, the mode of doing it may easily be found. --Jer. Taylor.

A table richly spread in regal mode. --Milton.

2. Prevailing popular custom; fashion, especially in the phrase the mode.

The easy, apathetic graces of a man of the mode. --Macaulay.

3. Variety; gradation; degree. --Pope.

4. (Metaph.) Any combination of qualities or relations, considered apart from the substance to which they belong, and treated as entities; more generally, condition, or state of being; manner or form of arrangement or manifestation; form, as opposed to matter.

Modes I call such complex ideas, which, however compounded, contain not in them the supposition of subsisting by themselves, but are considered as dependencies on, or affections of, substances. --Locke.

5. (Logic) The form in which the proposition connects the predicate and subject, whether by simple, contingent, or necessary assertion; the form of the syllogism, as determined by the quantity and quality of the constituent proposition; mood.

6. (Gram.) Same as Mood.

7. (Mus.) The scale as affected by the various positions in it of the minor intervals; as, the Dorian mode, the Ionic mode, etc., of ancient Greek music.

Note: In modern music, only the major and the minor mode, of whatever key, are recognized.

8. A kind of silk. See Alamode, n.

Syn: Method; manner. See Method.