Definitions for Moody

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Moody mood·y

Spelling: [moo-dee]

IPA: /ˈmu di/

Moody is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 32 anagrams from letters in Moody (dmooy).

Definitions for Moody

noun

1. Dwight Lyman [lahy-muh n] /ˈlaɪ mən/ (Show IPA), 1837–99, U.S. evangelist.
2. Helen Wills, Wills, Helen Newington.
3. William Vaughn [vawn] /vɔn/ (Show IPA), 1869–1910, U.S. poet and playwright.

adjective

1. given to gloomy, depressed, or sullen moods; ill-humored.
2. proceeding from or showing such a mood:
3. expressing or exhibiting sharply varying moods; temperamental.

Origin of Moody

before 900; Middle English mody, Old English mōdig. See mood¹, -y¹

Examples for Moody

He was silent and moody, and almost gruff on some occasions.

Too experimental and moody for the purists and too conventional for the risk seekers, it barely registered.

“You are too transcendental for me,” growled Ossipon, with moody concern.

Implicitly, you understand that you have to do mean and moody.

Risking a $1,500 HKD fine, nearly $200 USD, their cover of the moment was a moody song by Coldplay.

A solitary ruffian, indeed, is moody, but a gang of ruffians are jovial.

Underneath was someone who looked a lot more like me and the other young writers I knew: anxious, moody, paranoid.

We may think it has to do with some moody pall over his administration right now.

The premier and some of his colleagues observed, however, a moody silence.

But what he had just witnessed plunged his thoughts into a moody channel.