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moodiness
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun moodiness has 2 senses
- moodiness(n = noun.feeling) Array - a sullen gloomy feeling; Array is a kind of distemper, ill humor, ill humour
- moodiness(n = noun.attribute) Array - having temperamental and changeable moods; Array is a kind of disposition, temperament
has particulars: glumness, moroseness, sullenness
Derived form adjective moody1
Derived form adjective moody2
CIDE DICTIONARY
moodiness, n.
The quality or state of being moody; specifically, liability to strange or violent moods. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
moodiness
arbitrariness, bouderie, caprice, capriciousness, crankiness, crotchetiness, dejection, desultoriness, deviability, dumpishness, eccentricity, erraticism, fancifulness, fantasticality, fickleness, flightiness, freakishness, glumness, grimness, grumness, humorsomeness, impulsiveness, inconsistency, inconstancy, instability, irregularity, melancholy, mercuriality, moodishness, mopishness, moroseness, motivelessness, petulance, quirkiness, restlessness, shiftiness, sulkiness, sullenness, surliness, temperamentalness, uncertainty, undependability, unfixedness, unpredictability, unreliability, unsettledness, unstableness, unsteadfastness, unsteadiness, variability, variation, variety, wantonness, waywardness, whimsicality, whimsicalness, whimsyROGET THESAURUS
moodiness
Sullenness
N sullenness, morosity, spleen, churlishness, irascibility, moodiness, perversity, obstinacy, torvity, spinosity, crabbedness, ill temper, bad temper, ill humor, bad humor, sulks, dudgeon, mumps, dumps, doldrums, fit of the sulks, bouderie, black looks, scowl, grouch, huff, sullen, sulky, ill-tempered, ill-humored, ill-affected, ill- disposed, grouty, in an ill temper, in a bad temper, in a shocking temper, in an ill humor, in a bad humor, in a shocking humor, out of temper, out of humor, knaggy, torvous, crusty, crabbed, sour, sour as a crab, surly, moody, spleenish, spleenly, splenetic, cankered, cross, crossgrained, perverse, wayward, humorsome, restiff, restive, cantankerous, intractable, exceptious, sinistrous, deaf to reason, unaccommodating, rusty, froward, cussed, dogged, grumpy, glum, grim, grum, morose, frumpish, in the sulks, out of sorts, scowling, glowering, growling, grouchy, peevish.
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