moody : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: moody	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for moody
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
moody adj showing a brooding ill humor; "a dark scowl"; "the proverbially dour New England Puritan"; "a glum, hopeless shrug"; "he sat in moody silence"; "a morose and unsociable manner"; "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper"; "a sullen crowd" Synonym(s): dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen subject to sharply varying moods; "a temperamental opera singer" Synonym(s): moody, temperamental n United States tennis player who dominated women's tennis in the 1920s and 1930s (1905-1998) Synonym(s): Moody, Helen Wills Moody, Helen Wills, Helen Newington Wills United States evangelist (1837-1899) Synonym(s): Moody, Dwight Lyman Moody
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Moody \Mood"y\, a. [Compar. {Moodier}; superl. {Moodiest}.] [AS. m[d3]dig courageous.] 1. Subject to varying moods, especially to states of mind which are unamiable or depressed. 2. Hence: Out of humor; peevish; angry; fretful; also, abstracted and pensive; sad; gloomy; melancholy. [bd]Every peevish, moody malcontent.[b8] --Rowe. Arouse thee from thy moody dream! --Sir W. Scott. Syn: Gloomy; pensive; sad; fretful; capricious.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Moody, AL (town, FIPS 51096) Location: 33.59693 N, 86.49463 W Population (1990): 4921 (1845 housing units) Area: 28.6 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water) Moody, MO Zip code(s): 65777 Moody, TX (town, FIPS 49200) Location: 31.30844 N, 97.36025 W Population (1990): 1329 (573 housing units) Area: 2.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 76557