Moody (n.)

  1. United States tennis player who dominated womens tennis in the 1920s and 1930s (1905-1998)

    [ Syn: moody , helen wills moody , helen wills , helen newington wills ]

  2. United States evangelist (1837-1899)

    [ Syn: moody , dwight lyman moody ]

    moody (adj.)

  1. showing a brooding ill humor; a dark scowl; the proverbially dour New England Puritan; a glum, hopeless shrug; he sat in moody silence; a morose and unsociable manner; a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius- Bruce Bliven; a sour temper; a sullen crowd

    [ Syn: dark , dour , glowering , glum , morose , saturnine , sour , sullen ]

  2. subject to sharply varying moods; a temperamental opera singer

    [ Syn: temperamental ]

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