mood
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
mood1
▶noun
- 1 a state of mind or feeling.
■ an angry, irritable, or sullen state of mind.
- 2 the atmosphere or pervading tone of something.
- 3 [as modifier] inducing or suggestive of a particular mood: mood music.
– origin OE mōd, of Gmc origin.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
mood2
▶noun
- 1 Grammar a form or category of a verb expressing fact (indicative mood), command (imperative mood), question (interrogative mood), wish (optative mood), or conditionality (subjunctive mood).
- 2 Logic any of the valid forms into which each of the figures of a categorical syllogism may occur.
'mood' also found in these Oxford entries:
amphetamine
- atmosphere
- bate
- bathos
- bed
- blood
- camper
- caprice
- capricious
- cheer
- conditional
- conjugation
- dispose
- down
- film noir
- filthy
- form
- frame
- gauge
- gerundive
- get
- have
- heart
- high spirits
- hormone
- humour
- imperative
- indicative
- inflect
- inflection
- lest
- lithium
- mercurial
- modal
- mode
- moody
- narcotic
- note
- optative
- puncture
- shake
- should
- siciliano
- snap
- spirit
- spirited
- strop
- subjunctive
