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English

Pronunciation

• enPR: mo?od, IPA^(key): /mu?d/
• Rhymes: -u?d
• Homophone: mooed

Etymology 1

From Middle English mood, mode, mod, from Old English m?d (“heart, mind, spirit, mood, temper; courage; arrogance, pride; power, violence”), from Proto-Germanic *m?d?, *m?daz (“sense, courage, zeal, anger”), from Proto-Indo-European *moh?-, *meh?- (“endeavour, will, temper”). Cognate with Scots mude, muid (“mood, courage, spirit, temper, disposition”), Saterland Frisian Moud (“courage”), West Frisian moed (“mind, spirit, courage, will, intention”), Dutch moed (“courage, bravery, heart, valor”), German Low German Mood (“mind, heart, courage”), German Mut (“courage, braveness, heart, spirit”), Danish mod (“courage, heart, bravery”), Swedish mod (“courage, heart, bravery”), Icelandic móður (“wrath, grief, moodiness”), Latin m?s (“will, humour, wont, inclination, mood”), Russian ????? (smet?, “to dare, venture”).

Noun

mood (plural moods)

1. A mental or emotional state, composure.

   Synonyms: composure, humor, spirit, temperament

2. Emotional character (of a work of music, literature, or other art).
   • 1979, Judith Glassman, The Year in Music, 1979 (?ISBN):

     Whatever the mood of her music, funky or romantic, upbeat or blue, sophisticated or simple, her fans get the message. And as long as the word comes from Natalie, they adore it, turning every one of her albums to gold or platinum.

3. A sullen, gloomy or angry mental state; a bad mood.

   Synonyms: (informal) huff, pet, temper

   Antonyms: good humour, good mood, good spirits

   • 2010, Michelle West, City of Night: A Novel of the House War, Penguin (?ISBN):

     Rath was clearly in a mood, and only Jay could fix that. They found Carver first. Rath was even less amused to see Carver in the drill room than he had been to find Duster. He grabbed Carver with his free hand, and dragged him out.

   • 2018, Catherine Lievens, Beacon in the Darkness, eXtasy Books (?ISBN), page 93:

     Joel was obviously in a mood, and if he was going to start yelling, Alex would rather be alone. “What did I do this time?” “It's more what you didn't do, idiot.”

4. A disposition to do something, a state of mind receptive or disposed to do something.

   Synonyms: huff, frame of mind

   • 2018, Rebecca Chastain, A Fistful of Frost, Mind Your Muse Books (?ISBN):

     "The Placer SPCA brings by some kittens and puppies, and I do my best to get everyone tipsy and in a donating mood."

6. A prevalent atmosphere, attitude, or feeling.
   • 1994, Kenneth Fearing, Complete Poems, page xxvi:

     This was the mood that led him to deny to Mainstream, the successor to the New Masses , permission to reprint “Reading, Writing, and the Rackets.” This was the mood that, when he was invited to a meeting to draft a letter of protest […]

   • 2010, Richard J. Murnane, John B. Willett, Methods Matter, Oxford University Press (?ISBN), page 8:

     By the early 1970s, more than 50,000 American deaths and the accompanying failed foreign-policy objectives had changed the country's mood.

7. (very colloquial, slang) A familiar, relatable feeling, experience, or thing.

   Synonym: big mood

   • 2019, Kris Ripper, Runaway Road Trip: (A Definitely-Not-Romantic Adventure):

     “I'm only here for a night. I'm road tripping with a friend and he decided we needed a queer bar, stat.” “Oh, that's a whole mood.”

   • 2020, Birgit Breidenbach, Aesthetic and Philosophical Reflections on Mood: Stimmung and Modernity, Routledge (?ISBN)

     […] For academics, not being familiar with new phrases that your students cofindently wield is a whole mood. […]

   • 2020, Cynthia St. Aubin, Love Bites (Oliver-Heber Books):

     He'd drawn a variety of designs on the white rubber toes. “Nice shoes,” I said. “Likewise,” he said, glancing down at my rockabilly-red peep toe pumps. “Those kicks are a whole-ass mood.” Whether Steven liked them on me or might like to […]

8. (obsolete, Northern England and Scotland) Courage, heart, valor; also vim and vigor.
   • 1440, O lord omnipotent?

Usage notes

• Adjectives often used with "mood": good, bad, foul.
• The phrase with main and mood means "with all one's might".

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• ambiance, ambience
• atmosphere
• Gemütlichkeit

References

• The Middle English Dictionary
• The Dictionary of the Scots Language

Etymology 2

Alteration of mode, from Latin modus.

Noun

mood (plural moods)

1. (grammar) A verb form that depends on how its containing clause relates to the speaker’s or writer’s wish, intent, or assertion about reality.

   Synonyms: grammatical mood, mode

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:grammatical mood

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• aspect
• tense

Anagrams

• Doom, Odom, doom

Estonian

Etymology

From German Mode.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?o?d??/

Noun

mood (genitive moe, partitive moodi)

1. fashion
2. tradition
3. appearance, style
4. (partitive) style, variety, sort, type

Declension

See also

• moondama

Manx

Pronoun

mood

1. second-person singular of mysh

   about you

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English m?d.

Noun

mood

1. Alternative form of mode (“intellect, mood, will, courage, nature”)

Etymology 2

From Old French mode.

Noun

mood

1. Alternative form of mode (“grammatical mood”)

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mi?n??/
• Rhymes: -i?n??

Etymology 1

From Middle English mening, menyng, equivalent to mean +? -ing. Cognate with Scots mening (“intent, purpose, sense, meaning”), West Frisian miening (“opinion, mind”), Dutch mening (“view, opinion, judgement”), German Meinung (“opinion, view, mind, idea”), Danish and Swedish mening (“meaning, sense, sentence, opinion”), Icelandic meining (“meaning”).

Noun

meaning (countable and uncountable, plural meanings)

1. (of words, expressions or symbols)
   1. The denotation, referent, or idea connected with a word, expression, or symbol.

      • Elbows almost touching they leaned at ease, idly reading the almost obliterated lines engraved there. ¶ "I never understood it," she observed, lightly scornful. "What occult meaning has a sun-dial for the spooney? I'm sure I don't want to read riddles in a strange gentleman's optics."

   2. The connotation associated with a word, expression, or symbol.
2. The purpose, value, or significance (of something) beyond the fact of that thing's existence.

   The number of persons attending the vigil had a lot of meaning to the families.

3. (of a person's actions) Intention.
   • c. 1610?, Walter Raleigh, A Discourse of War

     It was their meaning to take what they needed by strong hand.

Synonyms

• (denotation of words etc.): definition
• (connotation of words etc.):
• (purpose, significance):
• (of a person's actions): goal, aim, plan, intent

Hyponyms

• proposition

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From mean +? -ing.

Verb

meaning

1. present participle of mean

Adjective

meaning (comparative more meaning, superlative most meaning)

1. Having a (specified) intention.
2. Expressing some intention or significance; meaningful.
   • 1839, Edgar Allan Poe, "William Wilson"

     I might, to-day, have been a better, and thus a happier man, had I less frequently rejected the counsels embodied in those meaning whispers which I then but too cordially hated and too bitterly despised.

   • 1978, Jane Gardam, God on the Rocks, Abacus 2014, p. 160:

     [T]he new friends […] knew nothing and did not particularly care to hear about the beautiful mother with her long, meaning looks and liquid dresses and distant smile.

References

• meaning at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• amening