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mood
CIDE DICTIONARY
mood, n. [The same word as mode, perh. influenced by mood temper. See Mode.].
- Manner; style; mode; logical form; musical style; manner of action or being. See Mode which is the preferable form). [1913 Webster]
- Manner of conceiving and expressing action or being, as positive, possible, conditional, hypothetical, obligatory, imperitive, etc., without regard to other accidents, such as time, person, number, etc.; as, the indicative mood; the imperitive mood; the infinitive mood; the subjunctive mood. Same as Mode. [1913 Webster]
mood, n. [OE. mood, mod, AS. mōdmind, feeling, heart, courage; akin to OS. & OFries. mōd, D. moed, OHG. muot, G. muth, mut, courage, Dan. & Sw. mod, Icel. mō wrath, Goth. mōds.].
Temper of mind; temporary state of the mind in regard to passion or feeling; humor; as, a melancholy mood; a suppliant mood. [1913 Webster]
"Till at the last aslaked was his mood." [1913 Webster]
"Fortune is merry,
And in this mood will give us anything." [1913 Webster]
And in this mood will give us anything." [1913 Webster]
"The desperate recklessness of her mood." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
mood, n.
1 a state of mind or feeling.
2 (in pl.) fits of melancholy or bad temper.
3 (attrib.) inducing a particular mood (mood music).
1 a state of mind or feeling.
2 (in pl.) fits of melancholy or bad temper.
3 (attrib.) inducing a particular mood (mood music).
Idiom
in the (or no) mood (foll. by for, or to + infin.) inclined (or disinclined) (was in no mood to agree).
mood, n.
1 Gram. a a form or set of forms of a verb serving to indicate whether it is to express fact, command, wish, etc. (subjunctive mood). b the distinction of meaning expressed by different moods.
2 Logic any of the classes into which each of the figures of a valid categorical syllogism is subdivided.
1 Gram. a a form or set of forms of a verb serving to indicate whether it is to express fact, command, wish, etc. (subjunctive mood). b the distinction of meaning expressed by different moods.
2 Logic any of the classes into which each of the figures of a valid categorical syllogism is subdivided.
Etymology
var. of MODE, assoc. with MOOD(1)
THESAURUS
mood
Aristotelian sorites, Goclenian sorites, action, affection, air, anagnorisis, angle, architectonics, architecture, argument, atmosphere, attitude, aura, background, catastrophe, categorical syllogism, character, characterization, color, complication, conditional, continuity, contrivance, cue, denouement, design, development, device, dilemma, disposition, eager, emotion, enthymeme, episode, fable, falling action, feel, feeling, figure, frame, frame of mind, gimmick, heart, humor, imperative, in the mood, incident, inclination, inclined, indicative, individuality, jussive, keen, line, local color, mind, minded, mode, modus tollens, morale, motif, movement, mythos, nature, note, obligative, optative, paralogism, peripeteia, permissive, personality, plan, plot, potential, prosyllogism, pseudosyllogism, ready, recognition, response, rising action, rule, rule of deduction, scheme, secondary plot, semblance, sense, slant, sorites, soul, spirit, spirits, state of mind, story, strain, structure, subject, subjunctive, subplot, switch, syllogism, sympathetic, temper, temperament, thematic development, theme, timbre, tone, topic, twist, vein, well-disposed, willingROGET THESAURUS
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Willingness
N willingness, voluntariness, willing mind, heart, disposition, inclination, leaning, animus, frame of mind, humor, mood, vein, bent, penchant, aptitude, docility, docibleness, persuasibleness, persuasibility, pliability, geniality, cordiality, goodwill, alacrity, readiness, earnestness, forwardness, eagerness, asset, compliance, pleasure, gratuitous service, labor of love, volunteer, volunteering, willing, minded, fain, disposed, inclined, favorable, favorably- minded, favorably inclined, favorably disposed, nothing loth, in the vein, in the mood, in the humor, in the mind, ready, forward, earnest, eager, bent upon, predisposed, propense, docile, persuadable, persuasible, suasible, easily persuaded, facile, easy-going, tractable, genial, gracious, cordial, cheering, hearty, content, voluntary, gratuitous, spontaneous, unasked &c (ask), unforced, willingly, fain, freely, as lief, heart and soul, with pleasure, with all one's heart, with open arms, with good will, with right will, de bonne volonte, ex animo, con amore, heart in hand, nothing loth, without reluctance, of one's own accord, graciously, with a good grace, a la bonne heure, by all means, by all manner of means, to one's heart's content, yes.State
N state, condition, category, estate, lot, ease, trim, mood, pickle, plight, temper, aspect, dilemma, pass, predicament, constitution, habitude, diathesis, frame, fabric, stamp, set, fit, mold, mould, mode, modality, schesis, form, tone, tenor, turn, trim, guise, fashion, light, complexion, style, character, conditional, modal, formal, structural, organic, conditionally, as the matter stands, as things are, such being the case.Change
N change, alteration, mutation, permutation, variation, modification, modulation, inflexion, mood, qualification, innovation, metastasis, deviation, turn, evolution, revolution, diversion, break, transformation, transfiguration, metamorphosis, transmutation, deoxidization, transubstantiation, mutagenesis transanimation, transmigration, metempsychosis, avatar, alterative, conversion, revolution &c (sudden or radical change), inversion, displacement, transference, changeableness, tergiversation, changed, newfangled, changeable, transitional, modifiable, alterative, mutatis mutandis, Int, quantum mutatus!, a change came o'er the spirit of my dream, nous avons change tout cela, tempora mutantur nos et mutamur in illis, non sum qualis eram, casaque tourner, corpora lente augescent cito extinguuntur, in statu quo ante bellum, still ending and beginning still, vox audita perit littera scripta manet.Affections
N affections, affect, character, qualities, disposition, nature, spirit, tone, temper, temperament, diathesis, idiosyncrasy, cast of mind, cast of soul, habit of mind, habit of soul, frame of mind, frame of soul, predilection, turn, natural turn of mind, bent, bias, predisposition, proneness, proclivity, propensity, propenseness, propension, propendency, vein, humor, mood, grain, mettle, sympathy, soul, heart, breast, bosom, inner man, heart's core, heart's strings, heart's blood, heart of hearts, bottom of one's heart, penetralia mentis, secret and inmost recesses of the heart, cockles of one's heart, inmost heart, inmost soul, backbone, passion, pervading spirit, ruling passion, master passion, furore, fullness of the heart, heyday of the blood, flesh and blood, flow of soul, energy, fervor, fire, force, affected, characterized, formed, molded, cast, attempered, tempered, framed, predisposed, prone, inclined, having a bias, tinctured with, imbued with, penetrated with, eaten up with, inborn, inbred, ingrained, deep-rooted, ineffaceable, inveterate, pathoscopic, congenital, dyed in the wool, implanted by nature, inherent, in the grain, affective, in one's heart, at heart, heart and soul, affection is a coal that must be cool'd else suffe.Tendency
N tendency, aptness, aptitude, proneness, proclivity, bent, turn, tone, bias, set, leaning to, predisposition, inclination, propensity, susceptibility, conatus, nisus, liability, quality, nature, temperament, idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy, cast, vein, grain, humor, mood, drift, conduciveness, conducement, applicability, subservience, tending, conducive, working towards, in a fair way to, calculated to, liable, subservient, useful, subsidiary, for, whither.For further exploring for "mood" in Webster Dictionary Online
