English noun: mood | |||
1. | mood (feeling) a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling | ||
Samples | Whether he praised or cursed me depended on his temper at the time. He was in a bad humor. | ||
Synonyms | humor, humour, temper | ||
Broader (hypernym) | feeling | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | amiability, distemper, good humor, good humour, good temper, ill humor, ill humour, peeve, sulk, sulkiness | ||
2. | mood (state) the prevailing psychological state | ||
Samples | The climate of opinion. The national mood had changed radically since the last election. | ||
Synonyms | climate | ||
Broader (hypernym) | condition, status | ||
3. | mood verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker | ||
Synonyms | modality, mode | ||
Broader (hypernym) | grammatical relation | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | common mood, declarative, declarative mood, fact mood, imperative, imperative form, imperative mood, indicative, indicative mood, interrogative, interrogative mood, jussive mood, optative, optative mood, subjunctive, subjunctive mood | ||