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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 1mood [BACK TO TOP]

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)


Sense 2mood [BACK TO TOP]

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)


Sense 3mood [BACK TO TOP]

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)


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