moody

moody
    adj 1: 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" [syn: {dark}, {dour}, {glowering}, {glum},
           {moody}, {morose}, {saturnine}, {sour}, {sullen}]
    2: subject to sharply varying moods; "a temperamental opera
       singer" [syn: {moody}, {temperamental}]
    n 1: United States tennis player who dominated women's tennis in
         the 1920s and 1930s (1905-1998) [syn: {Moody}, {Helen Wills
         Moody}, {Helen Wills}, {Helen Newington Wills}]
    2: United States evangelist (1837-1899) [syn: {Moody}, {Dwight
       Lyman Moody}]
    

Moody \Mood"y\, a. [Compar. {Moodier}; superl. {Moodiest}.] [AS.
   m[=o]dig courageous.]
   1. Subject to varying moods, especially to states of mind
      which are unamiable or depressed.
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   2. Hence: Out of humor; peevish; angry; fretful; also,
      abstracted and pensive; sad; gloomy; melancholy. "Every
      peevish, moody malcontent." --Rowe.
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            Arouse thee from thy moody dream!     --Sir W.
                                                  Scott.
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   Syn: Gloomy; pensive; sad; fretful; capricious.
        [1913 Webster] Moolah
    

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
    

Moody, AL -- U.S. town in Alabama
   Population (2000):    8053
   Housing Units (2000): 3317
   Land area (2000):     23.890636 sq. miles (61.876461 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    0.143462 sq. miles (0.371565 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    24.034098 sq. miles (62.248026 sq. km)
   FIPS code:            51096
   Located within:       Alabama (AL), FIPS 01
   Location:             33.592469 N, 86.496369 W
   ZIP Codes (1990):    
   Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   Headwords:
    Moody, AL
    Moody
    

Moody, TX -- U.S. city in Texas
   Population (2000):    1400
   Housing Units (2000): 616
   Land area (2000):     0.850678 sq. miles (2.203245 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    0.850678 sq. miles (2.203245 sq. km)
   FIPS code:            49200
   Located within:       Texas (TX), FIPS 48
   Location:             31.307489 N, 97.360210 W
   ZIP Codes (1990):     76557
   Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   Headwords:
    Moody, TX
    Moody
    

Moody -- U.S. County in South Dakota
   Population (2000):    6595
   Housing Units (2000): 2745
   Land area (2000):     519.672138 sq. miles (1345.944602 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    1.425682 sq. miles (3.692498 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    521.097820 sq. miles (1349.637100 sq. km)
   Located within:       South Dakota (SD), FIPS 46
   Location:             44.014833 N, 96.658939 W
   Headwords:
    Moody
    Moody, SD
    Moody County
    Moody County, SD
    

158 Moby Thesaurus words for "moody":
      abrupt, adrift, afloat, alternating, amorphous, arbitrary,
      beetle-browed, black, black-browed, blue, brooding, broody,
      cantankerous, capricious, changeable, changeful, chapfallen,
      cheerless, crabbed, crabby, cranky, crestfallen, crotchety, crusty,
      curt, dark, dejected, depressed, desolate, despondent, desultory,
      deviable, disconsolate, disheartened, dismal, dizzy, dour,
      downcast, downhearted, dumpish, eccentric, erratic, fanciful,
      fantasied, fantastic, fast and loose, fickle, fitful, flaky,
      flickering, flighty, flitting, fluctuating, freakish, frowning,
      giddy, gloomy, glowering, glum, grim, grum, harebrained, huffish,
      huffy, humorsome, ill-humored, ill-tempered, impatient, impetuous,
      impulsive, in the doldrums, inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive,
      infirm, irregular, irresolute, irresponsible, irritable, kinky,
      long-faced, lowering, lugubrious, maggoty, mazy, melancholy,
      mercurial, moodish, mopey, moping, mopish, morose, motiveless,
      mumpish, notional, out of sorts, peevish, petulant, piqued, quirky,
      rambling, restless, roving, sad, saturnine, scatterbrained,
      scowling, shapeless, shifting, shifty, short, short-tempered,
      shuffling, snappish, snappy, spasmodic, spineless, sulking, sulky,
      sullen, surly, temperamental, testy, touchy, unaccountable,
      uncertain, uncontrolled, undependable, undisciplined, uneven,
      unfixed, unhappy, unpredictable, unreasonable, unreliable,
      unrestrained, unsettled, unstable, unstable as water, unstaid,
      unsteadfast, unsteady, vacillating, vagarious, vagrant, variable,
      vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous, volatile, wandering, wanton,
      waspish, wavering, wavery, wavy, wayward, whimsical, wishy-washy