Associations to the word «Moody»
Adjective
Wiktionary
MOODY, adjective. Given to sudden or frequent changes of mind; temperamental.
MOODY, adjective. Sulky or depressed
MOODY, adjective. Dour, gloomy or brooding
MOODY, adjective. (slang) dodgy or stolen
MOODY, proper noun. A surname.
MOODY COUNTY, proper noun. A county in eastern South Dakota. County seat: Flandreau
Dictionary definition
MOODY, noun. United States tennis player who dominated women's tennis in the 1920s and 1930s (1905-1998).
MOODY, noun. United States evangelist (1837-1899).
MOODY, adjective. Showing a brooding ill humor; "a dark scowl"; "the proverbially dour New England Puritan"; "a glum, hopeless shrug"; "he sat in moody silence"; "a morose and unsociable manner"; "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper"; "a sullen crowd".
MOODY, adjective. Subject to sharply varying moods; "a temperamental opera singer".
Wise words
Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary
meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the
truants in custody and bring them back to their right
senses.