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Meaning: A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling Classified under: Nouns denoting feelings and emotions Synonyms: 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: 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) "If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?" (English proverb) "A man says his word to the face" (Azerbaijani proverb) "The deserter is the brother of the murderer." (Arabic proverb) "Next to fire, straw isn't good." (Corsican proverb) Useful links: interrogative mood definition Definition of sulkiness distemper definition Pronunciation of amiability good humour definition
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