moody

1. 1.

   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”

   “a sour temper”

   “a sullen crowd”

   Synonymsdarkdourgloweringglummorosesaturninesoursullen

   Similarill-natured
2. 2.

   subject to sharply varying moods

   “a temperamental opera singer”

   Synonymstemperamental

   Similaremotional

Other forms of moody

plural

moodies·

comparative or superlative

moodier

comparative or superlative

moodiest

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 moody

What does moody mean?

moody means "United States tennis player who dominated women's tennis in the 1920s and 1930s (1905-1998)". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in moody?

moody has 2 syllables: moo-dy. The stress falls on "moo". In IPA it is /ˈmudi/.

What is another word for moody?

Close synonyms include Helen Wills Moody, Helen Wills, Helen Newington Wills, Dwight Lyman Moody, dark. 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 moody a common word?

moody is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.