moody

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adjective

1. Given to changeable emotional states, especially of anger or gloom: temperamental. See feelings.
2. Broodingly and sullenly unhappy: dour, gloomy, glum, morose, saturnine, sour, sulky, sullen, surly. See happy/unhappy.

adj

Definition: crabby, temperamental
Antonyms: balanced, cheerful, equable, happy, overjoyed

IN BRIEF: Having frequently changeable and often negative emotions.

And moody madness laughing wild Amid severest woe. — Thomas Gray (1716-1771).

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noun
noun, criminals'

1: Persuasive talk, flannel; nonsense, rubbish. (1934 —) .
R. Busby The same old moody he'd heard a thousand times before (1970).

2: A moody temper or period; a fit of sulks. Also to pull the moody, to sulk. (1969 —) .
T. Barling I gave you Ollie, so lay off the moodies (1986). adjective

3: False, counterfeit; fake. (1958 —) .
N. J. Crisp 'I don't have to tell you,' Kenyon went on, 'how easy it is to plant moody information about a copper' (1978). verb

4: To bluff or deceive by means of flattery, etc. (1934 —) .
R. Cook Trying to moody through to the royal enclosure on the knock (1962).

[In sense 1, prob. from moody adjective, but some connection has been suggested with Moody and Sankey rhyming slang for 'hanky-panky' (from the names of two US hymn writers, Dwight L. Moody ((1837 — 99)) and Ira D. Sankey ((1840 — 1908)) ); in sense 3, apparently from earlier sense, gloomy, sullen.]

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See words rhyming with "moody."

Dansk (Danish)
adj. - lidende af humørsyge, skiftende humør

Nederlands (Dutch)
humeurig, wispelturig, gedeprimeerd

Français (French)
adj. - d'humeur changeante, lunatique, maussade, de mauvaise humeur, mal luné

Deutsch (German)
adj. - launenhaft, schlecht gelaunt, niedergeschlagen

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - κατηφής, κακόκεφος, κατσούφης, σκυθρωπός, κυκλοθυμικός, ευμετάβλητος

Italiano (Italian)
scontroso, volubile

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - melancólico, mal-humorado

Русский (Russian)
унылый, со скверным характером, легко поддающийся переменам настроения

Español (Spanish)
adj. - malhumorado, de humor cambiadizo, caprichoso

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - lynnig, tvär

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
心情不稳的, 喜怒无常的, 易怒的

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 心情不穩的, 喜怒無常的, 易怒的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 우울한, 변덕스러운

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - むら気な, むっつりした, 不機嫌な, ふさぎ込んだ, むら気の, 気難しい
n. - ムーディ

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) مزاجي‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮מדוכדך, מצוברח‬

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