FRAME OF MIND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does frame of mind mean? 

• FRAME OF MIND (noun)
  The noun FRAME OF MIND has 1 sense:

1. a temporary psychological state

  Familiarity information: FRAME OF MIND used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FRAME OF MIND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A temporary psychological state

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

frame of mind; state of mind

Hypernyms ("frame of mind" is a kind of...):

temporary state (a state that continues for a limited time)

mental condition; mental state; psychological condition; psychological state ((psychology) a mental condition in which the qualities of a state are relatively constant even though the state itself may be dynamic)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "frame of mind"):

case (a specific state of mind that is temporary)

thinking cap (a state in which one thinks)

 Context examples 

Being then in a pleasant frame of mind (from which I infer that poisoning is not always disagreeable in some stages of the process), I resolved to go to the play.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Lady St. Simon, then, returned from the wedding in a less cheerful frame of mind than she had gone to it.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In such frame of mind sinners come to the penitent form.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

She was nervous and worn out with watching and worry, and in that unreasonable frame of mind which the best of mothers occasionally experience when domestic cares oppress them.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

If, as I am willing to suppose, you wish to shew me any observance, you will not give way to these emotions, but endeavour to reason yourself into a stronger frame of mind.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

A commonplace, practical reply, out of the train of his own disturbed ideas, was, I was sure, the best and most reassuring for him in this frame of mind.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Even in his chastened frame of mind, the noble miser could give us no information which could help us, for he knew little of the private life of his nephew.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This also will be a magical date night, and because it falls on a Friday, you will be in the right frame of mind to enjoy romance, too.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

It was evident that he recognised my return to my old doubting frame of mind without my saying a word.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

In such a frame of mind as she was now in, Elinor had no difficulty in obtaining from her whatever promise she required; and at her request, Marianne engaged never to speak of the affair to any one with the least appearance of bitterness;—to meet Lucy without betraying the smallest increase of dislike to her;—and even to see Edward himself, if chance should bring them together, without any diminution of her usual cordiality.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)