moodnoun [ C ]
uk/muːd/us/muːd/B1 the way you feel at a particular time:
She's in a good/bad mood.
Her mood seemed to change during the course of the conversation.
The drink had put him in an amiable mood.
The public mood changed dramatically after the bombing.
The mood of the crowd suddenly turned (= the crowd suddenly became) aggressive.
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- His mood swings between elation and despair.
- Why are you in such a foul mood this morning?
- The prime minister was in defiant mood in the House of Commons yesterday.
- His moods are very changeable.
- Oh, just stop it Alex, I'm really not in the mood for your jokes.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Moods
- -humoured
- be in one of your moods idiom
- black mood
- eat
- frame
- have a strop on idiom
- mind
- snit
- spirit
- strop
- suck
- sucking diesel idiom
- temper
- temperament
- temperamental
- temperature
- tone
- up and down idiom
- what's eating sb? idiom
- yourself
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Idiom(s)
be in a mood
be in a mood for sth/to do sth
be in no mood for sth/to do sth
be in one of your moods
be in the mood (for sth/to do sth)