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moody
adjective as in crabby, temperamental
Strong matches
Weak matches
- angry
- cantankerous
- capricious
- changeable
- crabbed
- crestfallen
- dismal
- doleful
- dour
- down in the dumps
- down in the mouth
- erratic
- fickle
- fitful
- flighty
- frowning
- gloomy
- glum
- huffy
- ill-humored
- ill-tempered
- impulsive
- in a huff
- in the doldrums
- introspective
- irascible
- irritable
- lugubrious
- mercurial
- miserable
- moping
- morose
- offended
- out of sorts
- pensive
- petulant
- piqued
- sad
- saturnine
- short-tempered
- splenetic
- sullen
- testy
- touchy
Example Sentences
It’s a moody and evocative tribute that even the non-graphic-novel-lover will appreciate.
He decided to give his partner the perfume he found a few days earlier because she was “a bit moody with me”.
Above, a large skylight is adorned with hundreds of suspended corn cobs, their illuminated forms offering one of the few sources of light in the dark and moody, monochromatic space.
For sure, it’s a dreamy pastiche of the era’s moody, existential movies.
She also taught the pupil, and said that there had been some problems with behaviour, saying she could be “immature” and “either really happy or moody”.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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