mood
Other forms: moods
Are you feeling good or bad, cheerful or irritable right now? This is your mood.
Mood refers to how you feel at the present time. If you want to ask your boss for a raise, wait until he or she is in a good mood. Don't ask, though, if he or she is "in a mood" - that means the person is grumpy. If you are in the mood for something like ice cream or spicy food, you would like to have it now. Mood can also describe the attitude of a group of people or the feeling of a film, novel or piece of music.
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a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
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peeve
an annoyed or irritated mood
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sulk, sulkiness
a mood or display of sullen aloofness or withdrawal
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amiability, good humor, good humour, good temper
a cheerful and agreeable mood
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distemper, ill humor, ill humour
an angry and disagreeable mood
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jolliness, jollity, joviality
feeling jolly and jovial and full of good humor
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moodiness
a sullen gloomy feeling
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choler, crossness, fretfulness, fussiness, irritability, peevishness, petulance
an irritable petulant feeling
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feeling
the experiencing of affective and emotional states
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the prevailing psychological state
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verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker
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common mood, declarative, declarative mood, fact mood, indicative, indicative mood
a mood (grammatically unmarked) that represents the act or state as an objective fact
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subjunctive, subjunctive mood
a mood that represents an act or state (not as a fact but) as contingent or possible
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optative, optative mood
a mood (as in Greek or Sanskrit) that expresses a wish or hope; expressed in English by modal verbs
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imperative, imperative form, imperative mood, jussive mood
a mood that expresses an intention to influence the listener's behavior
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interrogative, interrogative mood
some linguists consider interrogative sentences to constitute a mood
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grammatical relation
a linguistic relation established by grammar
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