Moody
WordNet
adjective
(1) Subject to sharply varying moods
"A temperamental opera singer"
(2) 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"- Bruce Bliven
"A sour temper"
"A sullen crowd"
noun
(3) United States evangelist (1837-1899)
(4) United States tennis player who dominated women's tennis in the 1920s and 1930s (born in 1906)
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Etymology
Old English mōdiġ ‘brave’, from Germanic. Cognate with Dutch moedig, German mutig, Swedish modig.
Adjective
- Given to sudden or frequent changes of mind; temperamental
- sulky or depressed
- dour, gloomy or brooding