mood

Other forms of mood

plural

moods·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about mood

What does mood mean?

mood means "a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mood?

mood has 1 syllable: mood. In IPA it is /ˈmud/.

What is another word for mood?

Close synonyms include temper, humor, humour, climate, mode. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mood a common word?

mood is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.