MOOD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mood mean? 

• MOOD (noun)
  The noun MOOD has 3 senses:

1. a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling

2. the prevailing psychological state

3. verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker

  Familiarity information: MOOD used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MOOD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

humor; humour; mood; temper

Context example:

he was in a bad humor

Hypernyms ("mood" is a kind of...):

feeling (the experiencing of affective and emotional states)

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

peeve (an annoyed or irritated mood)

sulk; sulkiness (a mood or display of sullen aloofness or withdrawal)

amiability; good humor; good humour; good temper (a cheerful and agreeable mood)

distemper; ill humor; ill humour (an angry and disagreeable mood)

Derivation:

moody (subject to sharply varying moods)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The prevailing psychological state

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

climate; mood

Context example:

the national mood had changed radically since the last election

Hypernyms ("mood" is a kind of...):

condition; status (a state at a particular time)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Synonyms:

modality; mode; mood

Hypernyms ("mood" is a kind of...):

grammatical relation (a linguistic relation established by grammar)

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

common mood; declarative; declarative mood; fact mood; indicative; indicative mood (a mood (grammatically unmarked) that represents the act or state as an objective fact)

subjunctive; subjunctive mood (a mood that represents an act or state (not as a fact but) as contingent or possible)

optative; optative mood (a mood (as in Greek or Sanskrit) that expresses a wish or hope; expressed in English by modal verbs)

imperative; imperative form; imperative mood; jussive mood (a mood that expresses an intention to influence the listener's behavior)

interrogative; interrogative mood (some linguists consider interrogative sentences to constitute a mood)

 Context examples 

Brief Pain Inventory Short Form (BPI Short Form) Circle the one number that describes how, during the past 24 hours, pain has interfered with your mood.

(BPI Short Form - Pain Interfered with Mood, NCI Thesaurus)

Brief Pain Inventory (BPI) Circle the one number that describes how, during the past week, pain has interfered with your mood.

(BPI - Pain Interfered with Mood, NCI Thesaurus)

They often have normal moods in between.

(Bipolar Disorder, NIH: National Institute of Mental Health)

I thought it well to leave him in this mood, and so I came away.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale-A (BPRS-A) Depressive mood.

(BPRS-A - Depressive Mood, NCI Thesaurus)

Symptoms include loss of speech, trouble swallowing and eating, loss of balance, trouble walking, loss of muscle tone, mood swings, and changes in personality.

(Cerebellar mutism syndrome, NCI Dictionary)

I have had some experience of him in other moods, however, and shall be the less surprised when the thunderstorms suddenly come up amidst the sunshine.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Aunt March put on her glasses and took a look at the girl, for she did not know her in this new mood.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Effexor increases the levels of the chemicals serotonin and norepinephrine in the brain, which helps improve mood.

(Effexor, NCI Dictionary)

He was evidently in a pessimistic mood.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)