mood

mood
    n 1: a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state
         of feeling; "whether he praised or cursed me depended on
         his temper at the time"; "he was in a bad humor" [syn:
         {temper}, {mood}, {humor}, {humour}]
    2: the prevailing psychological state; "the climate of opinion";
       "the national mood had changed radically since the last
       election" [syn: {climate}, {mood}]
    3: verb inflections that express how the action or state is
       conceived by the speaker [syn: {mood}, {mode}, {modality}]
    

Mood \Mood\ (m[=oo]d), n. [The same word as mode, perh.
   influenced by mood temper. See {Mode}.]
   1. Manner; style; mode; logical form; musical style; manner
      of action or being. See {Mode} which is the preferable
      form).
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   2. (Gram.) Manner of conceiving and expressing action or
      being, as positive, possible, conditional, hypothetical,
      obligatory, imperitive, etc., without regard to other
      accidents, such as time, person, number, etc.; as, the
      indicative mood; the imperitive mood; the infinitive mood;
      the subjunctive mood. Same as {Mode}.
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Mood \Mood\, n. [OE. mood, mod, AS. m[=o]dmind, feeling, heart,
   courage; akin to OS. & OFries. m[=o]d, D. moed, OHG. muot, G.
   muth, mut, courage, Dan. & Sw. mod, Icel. m[=o][eth]r wrath,
   Goth. m[=o]ds.]
   Temper of mind; temporary state of the mind in regard to
   passion or feeling; humor; as, a melancholy mood; a suppliant
   mood.
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         Till at the last aslaked was his mood.   --Chaucer.
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         Fortune is merry,
         And in this mood will give us anything.  --Shak.
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         The desperate recklessness of her mood.  --Hawthorne.
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112 Moby Thesaurus words for "mood":
      Aristotelian sorites, Goclenian sorites, action, affection, air,
      anagnorisis, angle, architectonics, architecture, argument,
      atmosphere, attitude, aura, background, catastrophe,
      categorical syllogism, character, characterization, color,
      complication, conditional, continuity, contrivance, cue,
      denouement, design, development, device, dilemma, disposition,
      eager, emotion, enthymeme, episode, fable, falling action, feel,
      feeling, figure, frame, frame of mind, gimmick, heart, humor,
      imperative, in the mood, incident, inclination, inclined,
      indicative, individuality, jussive, keen, line, local color, mind,
      minded, mode, modus tollens, morale, motif, movement, mythos,
      nature, note, obligative, optative, paralogism, peripeteia,
      permissive, personality, plan, plot, potential, prosyllogism,
      pseudosyllogism, ready, recognition, response, rising action, rule,
      rule of deduction, scheme, secondary plot, semblance, sense, slant,
      sorites, soul, spirit, spirits, state of mind, story, strain,
      structure, subject, subjunctive, subplot, switch, syllogism,
      sympathetic, temper, temperament, thematic development, theme,
      timbre, tone, topic, twist, vein, well-disposed, willing