I. ˈmüd noun
( -s )
Etymology: Middle English mod, mood, from Old English mōd; akin to Old High German muot emotion, mood, mind, purpose, Old Norse mōthr wrath, moodiness, Gothic mōths courage, anger, Latin mos custom, Greek maiesthai to strive, and perhaps to Lithuanian matyti to see, Old Slavic motriti to look
1.
a. : a conscious subjective state of mind : predominant emotion : feeling , temper
it had taken possession of him again — that indomitable, conquering mood which seemed to give him the right of way wherever he went — O.E.Rölvaag
sometimes the mood of one player may cause him to change some detail of interpretation — S.E.Wier
the ox was his companion … and he had walked behind and praised it and cursed it as his mood was — Pearl Buck
b. : a particular state of mind predisposing to action : receptive spirit
in the mood to listen to her — Mary Webb
the House was, at that time, in no giving mood — T.B.Macaulay
2. archaic : a fit of anger : rage
who, in my mood , I stabbed unto the heart — Shakespeare
3.
a. : a prevailing attitude : general spirit : disposition
our national mood has changed with our fortunes in battle — J.K.Little
the Indians betrayed their mood by accepting only rifles … and hatchets in payment for their furs — John Mason Brown
b. : a distinctive atmosphere or emotional context : tonal quality : aura
a large open room that had the mood of a French commercial outpost somewhere in the tropics — D.W.Dresden
the emotional mood of the play — H.F.Helvenston
the mood of the landscape, achieved by the beauty of the evening light — Kenneth Clark
in this book his mood is doggedly elegiac — Anthony Quinton
c. : a degree of activity or gradation of illumination : aspect
the sea in all its moods — W.H.Taylor
watching land and water, rocks and trees, and their everchanging hues and moods — Richard Semon
Synonyms:
humor , temper , vein : mood is the comprehensive term for any state of mind in which one emotion or desire or set of them is ascendant, stressing possibly more than the other terms a pervasiveness and compelling quality
the tense limbs of a body possessed by a single mood of rapt exaltation — Laurence Binyon
everything was going along smoothly and the men were in a happy mood — H.A.Chippendale
the disgustingly bilious mood which a nasty night at sea never fails to produce — David Fairchild
practicality was the prevailing mood after the war — Dixon Wecter
the normally sedate neighborhood relaxes in holiday mood — American Guide Series: Maryland
humor in this context applies chiefly to a mood resulting from one's special temperament or physical or mental condition at the moment, suggesting a capriciousness or whimsicality
in no humor to be trifled with
a man of violent humors and yet touching affection
I would not only consult the interest of the people, but I would cheerfully gratify their humors — Edmund Burke
temper can apply to a mood dominated by a single strong emotion, usually anger when the term is unmodified; when modified by an adjective indicating the controlling emotion, the term indicates any humor manifest in a display of feeling
found his friend in quite a temper
wake up in a foul temper
find his boss in a pleasant temper
vein is often used in the sense of mood , usually suggesting greater transitoriness, or of humor but almost devoid of any implication of physical or temperamental cause
the whole is written in a vein of ironic seriousness — H.J.Laski
be in a jubilant vein after a small triumph
make a request of a man while he is in an affable and generous vein
II. noun
( -s )
Etymology: alteration (influenced by mood ) (I) of mode (I)
1.
a. : the form of a syllogism classified according to the quantity and quality of the constituent propositions and traditionally shown by a sequence formed from the letters A, E, I, O such that the first letter indicates the major premise, the second the minor, and the third the conclusion — compare figure 10, opposition 2a(2)
b. : mode 3b
2.
a. : distinction of form in a verb to express whether the action or state it denotes is conceived as fact or in some other manner (as command, possibility, or wish)
the Latin verb has person, tense, number, mood , and voice
b. : a set of inflectional forms of a verb that express whether the action or state it denotes is conceived as fact or in some other manner
the indicative mood
the imperative mood
the subjunctive mood
the optative mood
c. : the part of the meaning of a verb form that consists of the expression of whether the action or state it denotes is conceived as fact or in some other manner
3. : mode 1b