adjective (moodier, moodiest)
1 having moods that change quickly and often:
Moody people are very difficult to deal with.
2 bad-tempered or upset, often for no particular reason:
Why are you so moody today?
3 (of a film / movie, piece of music or place) suggesting particular emotions, especially sad ones:
She gazed out at the moody grey sea.
moodily adverb:
He stared moodily into the fire.
moodiness noun [U]
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for moody is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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