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| 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
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] —Synonyms 1. temper, humor, disposition, inclination.
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| 1. | Grammar.
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| 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. |
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| mood 1
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n.
[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). |
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| mood 2
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n.
[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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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.
See also: moodyExample: What kind of mood is she in?; I'm in a bad mood today.
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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 :
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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.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
Mood
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.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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