MOOD
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)
Meaning:
A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Synonyms:
humour; mood; temper; humor
Context examples:
whether he praised or cursed me depended on his temper at the time / 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)
Meaning:
The prevailing psychological state
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
climate; mood
Context examples:
the climate of opinion / the national mood had changed radically since the last election
Hypernyms ("mood" is a kind of...):
condition; status (a state at a particular time)
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; mood; mode
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 represent 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)
