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Moody

Definition: Moody

Moody

Adjective

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".

2. Subject to sharply varying moods; "a temperamental opera singer".

Noun

1. United States tennis player who dominated women's tennis in the 1920s and 1930s (born in 1906).

2. United States evangelist (1837-1899).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "moody" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Note: Moody \Mood"y\, adjective. [Comparative Moodier; superlative Moodiest.]. (Websters 1913)


Synonyms: Moody

Synonyms: dark (adj), dour (adj), glowering (adj), glum (adj), morose (adj), saturnine (adj), sour (adj), sullen (adj), temperamental (adj). (additional references)

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Specialty Definition: Moody, Alabama

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Moody is a town located in St. Clair County, Alabama. As of the 2000 census, the population of the town is 8,053.

Geography


Moody is located at 33°35'33" North, 86°29'47" West (33.592469, -86.496369)1. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 62.2 km² (24.0 mi²). 61.9 km² (23.9 mi²) of it is land and 0.4 km² (0.1 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 0.58% water.

Demographics


As of the census2 of 2000, there are 8,053 people, 3,126 households, and 2,341 families residing in the town. The population density is 130.1/km² (337.1/mi²). There are 3,317 housing units at an average density of 53.6/km² (138.8/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 94.09% White, 3.81% Black or African American, 0.42% Native American, 0.22% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.37% from other races, and 1.08% from two or more races. 1.09% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 3,126 households out of which 34.6% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 60.8% are married couples living together, 10.6% have a female householder with no husband present, and 25.1% are non-families. 22.2% of all households are made up of individuals and 8.1% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.58 and the average family size is 3.02. In the town the population is spread out with 26.2% under the age of 18, 7.8% from 18 to 24, 31.6% from 25 to 44, 23.6% from 45 to 64, and 10.7% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 36 years. For every 100 females there are 95.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 90.8 males. The median income for a household in the town is $39,500, and the median income for a family is $43,767. Males have a median income of $38,150 versus $26,089 for females. The per capita income for the town is $18,208. 12.6% of the population and 12.0% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 13.9% are under the age of 18 and 12.2% are 65 or older.




Moody, Texas

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Moody is a city located in McLennan County, Texas. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 1,400.

Geography


Moody is located at 31°18'27" North, 97°21'37" West (31.307489, -97.360210)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 2.2 km² (0.9 mi²). 2.2 km² (0.9 mi²) of it is land and none of the area is covered with water.

Demographics


As of the census of 2000, there are 1,400 people, 529 households, and 369 families residing in the city. The population density is 635.9/km² (1,645.7/mi²). There are 616 housing units at an average density of 279.8/km² (724.1/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 82.71% White, 8.79% African American, 0.36% Native American, 0.00% Asian, 0.14% Pacific Islander, 6.57% from other races, and 1.43% from two or more races. 14.93% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 529 households out of which 33.5% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 54.4% are married couples living together, 12.9% have a female householder with no husband present, and 30.2% are non-families. 27.4% of all households are made up of individuals and 16.3% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.57 and the average family size is 3.14. In the city the population is spread out with 27.2% under the age of 18, 8.6% from 18 to 24, 25.8% from 25 to 44, 20.5% from 45 to 64, and 17.9% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 36 years. For every 100 females there are 85.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 80.4 males. The median income for a household in the city is $26,974, and the median income for a family is $34,271. Males have a median income of $28,828 versus $21,204 for females. The per capita income for the city is $13,048. 18.2% of the population and 16.3% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 22.1% are under the age of 18 and 18.7% are 65 or older.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Moody, Alabama."

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Synonyms within Context: Moody

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Dejection

Melancholy as a gib cat; oppressed with melancholy, a prey to melancholy; downcast, downhearted; down in the mouth, down in one;s luck; heavy-hearted; in the dumps, down in the dumps, in the suds, in the sulks, in the doldrums; in doleful dumps, in bad humor; sullen; mumpish, dumpish, mopish, moping; moody, glum; sulky; (discontented); out of sorts, out of humor, out of heart, out of spirits; ill at ease, low spirited, in low spirits, a cup too low; weary; discouraged, disheartened; desponding; chapfallen, chopfallen, jaw fallen, crest fallen.

Excitability

Feverish, febrile, hysterical; delirious, mad, moody, maggoty-headed.

Sullenness

Moody; spleenish, spleenly; splenetic, cankered.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Moody

English words defined with "moody": cheerlessdark, dean, dour, Dwight Lyman Moodyglowering, glumHelen Wills Moody, huffish, HumorsomeJames Byron Dean, James Deanmoodily, Moodish, morose, morosenesssaturnine, sour, sourness, sulkiness, sulky, sullen, sullennessuncheerful. (references)
Specialty definitions using "moody": Dying SayingsJewsPeg too Low. (references)

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Modern Usage: Moody

DomainUsage

Screenplays

They think you're moody, make 'em think you're crazy. (Pump Up the Volume; writing credit: Allan Moyle)

Movie/TV Titles

Moody Beach (1990)

Song Titles

MOODY RIVER (performing artist: Pat Boone )

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Moody

DomainTitle

Books

  • Birds of the Southwest: Arizona, New Mexico, Southern California & Southern Nevada (W.L. Moody, Jr., Natural History Series, No. 30) (reference)

  • Judy Moody (Judy Moody) (reference)

  • Moody Handbook of Theology (reference)

  • The Moody Atlas of Bible Lands (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  • The Moody Blues - A Night at Red Rocks with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra (reference)

  • Moody Blues: A Night at Red Rocks with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra (reference)

  • The Moody Blues Hall of Fame - Live From Royal Albert Hall (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Moody

Photos:
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Photo Album: Moody

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Staff Sgt. Chad Reed, 19th Special Operations Squadron, briefs visiting recruiters from the 336th Recruiting Squadron, based at Moody Air Force Base, Ga., on the 40mm gun and the 19th SOS's mission qualification course. The three recruiters were at Hurlb.

Marsh at sunset in Moody County, South Dakota. Credit: Don Poggensee.

Black farmer John Moody examins his corn in Jones County, MS. Credit: USDA.

African American farmer, John Moody checks his pecans trees in Jones County, MS. Credit: USDA.

"During the many long weeks of healing the patients must use wheelchairs and crutches until they learn how to walk with a synthetic limb. Shown is PFC Charles Moody of Institute, West Virginia, who was injured near Taegu, Korea, while serving with the First Cavalry Division." Photograph was probably taken at Walter Reed Army Hospital, Washington, DC. Quoted sentences are from the original caption, released with the photo on 1 February 1951. Credit: NAVY.

Receive commendations from the Secretary of the Navy, in his Navy Department office, shortly after the airship's loss on 4 April 1933. Those present are (from left to right): Assistant Secretary of the Navy Henry A. Roosevelt; Secretary of the Navy Claude Swanson; Admiral William V. Pratt, Chief of Naval Operations; Lieutenant Commander Herbert V. Wiley, senior survivor; Boatswain's Mate 2nd Class Richard E. Deal, survivor; and Aviation Metalsmith 2nd Class Moody Erwin, survivor. Erwin, whose left hand is bandaged, is apparently wearing a borrowed uniform, as its insignia is that of a Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class. Credit: NAVY.

Leopold Seyffert painting portrait of Helen Wills Moody. Credit: Library of Congress.

Andrew Moody and wife Tildy, ex-slave, Orange. Credit: Library of Congress.

Cottage of Geo. Moody, Harbor Beach. Credit: Library of Congress.

Residence of Rev. D.L. Moody, East Northfield, Mass. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Moody

AuthorQuotation

Dwight L. Moody

Character is what you are in the dark.
By the grace of God, I'll be that man.
A good example is far better than a good precept.
God never made a promise that was too good to be true.
Where one man reads the Bible, a hundred read you and me.
Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy.
The Bible will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from the Bible.
If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of itself.
There's no better book with which to defend the Bible than the Bible itself.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Moody

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

In this same year, 1823, Thenardier owed about fifteen hundred francs, of pressing debts, which rendered him moody.

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

Moody and silent.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Moody

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Some people think that women may be more moody, irritable, or depressed around the time of menopause. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Moody

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Marla Hanson

Well, it was the perfect place. It was dark and moody and artsy. And I thought, well, what a place to contemplate life or death.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Moody

"Moody" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 50.98% of the time. "Moody" is used about 357 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)50.98%18222,870
Adjective (general or positive)48.74%17423,577
Noun (singular)0.28%1339,140
                    Total100.00%357N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Moody

The following table summarizes the usage of "moody" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
MoodyLast name28,000401
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Cities: Moody


1. Moody, AL (town, FIPS 51096)
Location: 33.59693 N, 86.49463 W
Population (1990): 4921 (1845 housing units)
Area: 28.6 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water)
Country: USA


2. Moody, MO
Zip Code(s): 65777
Country: USA


3. Moody, TX (town, FIPS 49200)
Location: 31.30844 N, 97.36025 W
Population (1990): 1329 (573 housing units)
Area: 2.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 76557
Country: USA

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Expressions: Moody

Expressions using "moody": be moody dour glowering glum moody morose saturnine sour sullen Dwight Lyman Moody Helen Wills Moody Moody AFB Moody County. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "moody": Moody-sankey.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Moody

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

moody blues

1,378

galveston garden moody tx

33

moody garden

883

anne moody

32

moody

352

moody blues concert

30

moody bible institute

344

canada moody port

28

moody garden galveston

130

moody beach maine

25

moody bible

102

moody broadcasting

25

moody blues lyrics

101

moody blues discography

25

moody afb

92

raymond moody

24

moody garden hotel

79

moody magazine

23

moody air force base

72

d.l moody

22

port moody

65

holman moody

21

galveston garden moody texas

58

d l moody

21

bible college moody

52

eye mad moody

21

moody radio

46

blues in lyrics moody night satin white

19

moody investor service

46

moody s.com

19

moody press

45

blues moody ray thomas

19

afb ga valdosta moody

43

dl moody

18

city moody port

41

moody rating

18

church moody

37

dwight l moody

18

bank moody national

35

moody beach

17
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Moody

Language Translations for "moody"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

Me Humor Të Rëndë, Me Humor Të Ndryshëm. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏كئيب (bleak, blue, cheerless, damp, dark, dejected, depressed, depressing, depressive, desolate, disconsolate, dismal, dispirited, distressful, distressing, doleful, dolorous, down, downcast, down-hearted, drear, dreary, droopy, dyspeptic, funeral, funereal, gloomy, glum, gray, grey, grief-stricken, grieved, grievous, heavy-hearted, ill, joyless, leaden, lifeless, low-spirited, melancholic, melancholy, mournful, out of spirits, rueful, sad, saddening, somber, sombre, spiritless, sullen, tearful, weary), ‏متقلب المزاج, ‏متقلب (capricious, changeable, changeful, choppy, fickle, flighty, fluctuant, fluky, freakish, incalculable, inconsistent, inconstant, jumpy, mercurial, mobile, mutable, reversible, rough and tumble, shaky, skittish, temperamental, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, variable, versatile, volatile, wavering, wayward, weather vane, whimsical, yeasty), ‏نكد (chafe, distemper, fractious, grouchiness, moodiness, peevish, pettish, petulant, querulous, somber, sombre, splenetic, sulk, sullen, testy, vex, vinegar). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

Подтиснат, На Настроения, Унил (down in the mouth), ' Лошо Настроение, С Променлив Характер, аздразнителен. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

喜' 常. (various references)

   

Czech

  

Mrzutý (annoying, awkward, bad tempered, chuff, crabbed, cranky, cross, crusty, dumpish, frumpish, glum, grouchy, joyless, out of temper, peevish, pettish, rugged, sulky, sullen, surly, testy, untoward, vexatious), Náladový (capricious, crotchety, erratic, freakish, temperamental, whimsical). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

ترشرو (Acid, Dogged, Gruff, Grumpy, Morose, Petulant, Rusty, Sulky, Sullen), عبوس (Grim, Lower, Morose, Peevish, Rusty, Stern, Sulky, Sullen), اخمو, بدخلق (Cantankerous, Crosspatch, Dyspeptic, Grouchy, Gruff, Grumpy, Ornery, Ramshackle, Rowdyish), بداخلاق (Acid, Bad, Dissolute, Immoral, Impatient, Licentious, Rabid, Rake, Reprobate, Vile). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

synkkä (bleak, dark, desolate, dreary, gloomy, sullen), huonotuulinen. (various references)

   

French

  

Morne (mournful), Mal Luné, Lunatique, D'humeur Changeante, De Mauvaise Humeur. (various references)

   

German

  

Launisch (capricious, changeable, fickle, freakish, mood, moodily, perverse, pettish, pettishly, petulant, sulkily, temperamental, temperamentally, vagarious, wayward). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

Ιδιότροποσ, άθυμοσ (crestfallen, depressed, exanimate, mopish, sad, spiritless, sulky, vaporish), Σκυθρωπόσ, ίακόκεφοσ. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

־שועמם, ־"וכ"ך, ־צוברח. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

szeszélyes (be capricious, capricious, changeful, erratic, fanciful, fickle, fitful, freakish, have a little finger ache, have moods, kinky, maggoty, mercurial, peevish, petulant, skittish, wanton, whimsical), Kedvetlen (dejected, half hearted, listless, mumpish, out of humour, out of spirits, pettish, sour, stuporous). (various references)

   

Italian

  

triste (black, bleak, blue, blue-deviled, blue-devilled, cheerless, dark, dejected, disconsolate, dismal, doleful, dreary, dull, dusky, gaunt, gloomy, heavy, hipped, lachrymose, miserable, moped, sad, somber, sombre, sorrowful, sorry, sullen, unhappy, wan, woebegone), Lunatico (lunar, lunatic, temperamental, whimsical), Di Malumore. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

ミンク鯨 (minced beef, mince-meat, mince-pie, minke whale, mint, mint julep, mood, mood conditioning, Moore, moose, mousse, mouton, mucho, Muse, peppermint, piked whale), 気難しい (crusty, fastidious, hard to please), 気紛れ (caprice, fickle, uneven temper, whim, whimsy), 気まぐれ (caprice, fickle, uneven temper, whim, whimsy), 斑気 (capricious, whimsical), (dark-natured, dour, glum, insular, introverted, pessimistic). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ーディー , ねくら (dark-natured, dour, glum, insular, introverted, pessimistic), きまぐれ (caprice, fickle, uneven temper, whim, whimsy), きむずかしい (crusty, fastidious, hard to please), きむづかしい (crusty, fastidious, hard to please), むらき (capricious, whimsical). (various references)

   

Manx

  

teaymagh (capricious, fickle, fitful, freakish, humoursome, notional, spasmodic, wavering, whimsical), groamey (depressing, depressive, ill-tempered, joyless, sepulchral, sombre). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oodymay

   

Portuguese

  

Melancólico (atrabilious, bleak, blue, cloudy, dark, desolate, dismal, dreary, dredge, dumpish, gaunt, gloomy, low-spiritedness, melancholic, melancholy, mopish, morose, mournful, mourning, pensive, sad, somber, sombre), Mal-humorado (bad tempered, cantankerous, choleric, crusty, glum, ill timed, ill-humoured, illiberal, mumpish, snappish, snappy, snotty, splenetic, sulky, sullen, surly, techy, testy, tetchy), Triste (bleak, blue, broken hearted, cheerless, dark, desolate, dire, discontent, dismal, dismantle, dolichocephalic, dreary, dumpling, dun, gaunt, gloomily, Gray, grey, joylessly, long, lugubriousness, melancholy, mirthless, miserable, misty, moppet, mouse, painful, painfully, penstock, pitfall, sad, saturnine, somber, sombre, sore, sorrowful, sorry, tearful, tristful, unhappy, upset), Taciturno (morose, mumpish, reticent, silent, spleenful, sullen, taciturn, uncommunicative), Rabugento (acrimonious, atrabilious, brutal, criss cross, crusty, currish, faultless, fiddle-faddle, fractious, fretfulness, frustrate, Grove, gruff, harsh, morose, peevish, pettish, querulous, rough, shrewish, snuffy, sour, sullen, surly, techy, testy, tetchy, unkind, unpleasant), Humor (espy, frame, humor, humour, mood, phlegmatic, wit), Carrancudo (beetle, beetling, glum, sulky, sullen, surly). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

Supãrat (angry, cross, furious, irritated, magged, peeved, peevishly, petulantly, poutingly, sad, snuffy, sulky, sullen, sullenly), Schimbãtor (capricious, catching, changeable, chequered, choppy, fickle, inconstant, mobile, moonish, mutable, shifty, slippery, switch, unequal, unsettled, unsteady, variable, varied, versatile, volatile), Prost Dispus (ill disposed, ill tempered, ill-affected, ill-conditioned, ill-humored, ill-humoured, in a bad temper, mopish), Iritat (edgy, irate, magged, peeved, peevish, peevishly, rasping, resentful), Indispus (ailing, distempered, hipped, in a pet, indisposed, out of order, out of temper, poorly, queer, seedy, unwell, upset), Cu Toane (capricious, fanciful, fancy, maggoty, wayward, whimsical, whimsy). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

Угрюмый, Унылый. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

sumoran (adust, atrabilious, bleak, dismal, gloomy, mirk, murk, sullen), potišten (chap-fallen, crestfallen, crest-fallen, dejected, depressed, despondent, dispirited, down in the mouth, down-hearted, hangdog, heavy-laden, mopish, unhappy), ćudljiv (gnomish, jerky, skittish, vagarious, whimsical). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

De Humor Cambiante. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

Trumpen (glum, morose, sulky, sullen), Retlig (crabbed, fretful, fretting, ill tempered, irritable, peevish, pettish, snappy, snuffy, testy, touchy, waspish), Lynnig. (various references)

   

Thai

  

หงุ"หงิ" (fidgety). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

Karamsar Kimse (calamity howler, croak, croaker, Jeremiah, pessimist), Kıl (as cool as cucumber, bristle, hair, hairy, trichome), Huysuz (acrimonious, as cross as two sticks, bad tempered, bilious, cantankerous, churlish, crabbed, crabby, crank, cranky, cross-grained, crosspatch, crotchety, crusty, cursed, difficult, disagreeable, disgruntled, doggish, farouche, fractious, fretful, gnarled, grouchy, gruff, grumbling, grumpy, ill natured, ill tempered, ill-humored, ill-humoured, liverish, mean, out of humour, out of sorts, peeved, peevish, peppery, perverse, pettish, petulant, prickly, quarrelsome, querulous, ratty, rusty, shirty, snappish, spleenful, spleenish, splenetic, stroppy, sulky, surly, tetchy, thrawn, ugly, untoward, vicious, vixenish, waspish, wildcat, wrongheaded), Dengesiz (astatic, deranged, immoderate, inequable, lop-sided, non compos, non compos mentis, off one's rocker, out-of-balance, unbalanced, uncompensated, uneven, unstable), Bunalım (blues, crisis, depression, dismay, down, megrims, melancholy, shock, the megrims). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

Що Легко Підда"ться Змінам Настрою, Смутний, З Поганим Характером. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

bu"n rầu (black, chap-fallen, darkly, morose, mournful, rueful, sad, sadly, sorrowful, sullen, woebegone, woeful, woefully, woesome), ủ r (mopish). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Moody

Misspellings

"Moody" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: doody, foody, joody, moddy, modey, modie, modo, Modood, Mody, mojod, Molody, Momodu, moode, moodly, Mooey, mooly, moosy, Mootty, mooty, moty, mougy, moundy, mozy, Mudi, mudy, Murdy, Myod, myotomy, nody, nudy, odoy, poody. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Moody"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "moody" (pronounced muw"dē)
3-uw" d ēbroody.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Moody

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: doomy.

Words within the letters "d-m-o-o-y"

-1 letter: doom, mood.

-2 letters: dom, mod, moo, yod, yom.

-3 letters: do, mo, my, od, om, oy, yo.

 Words containing the letters "d-m-o-o-y"
 

+1 letter: monody, sodomy.

 

+2 letters: dayroom, doomily, moodily.

 

+3 letters: coembody, dayrooms, doomsday, homebody, monopody, myriopod, odometry, somebody.

 

+4 letters: commodify, commodity, condyloma, dichotomy, doomfully, doomsayer, doomsdays, dormitory, dynamotor, monkeypod, myriopods.

 

+5 letters: admonitory, coemployed, composedly, condylomas, demonology, dictyosome, diseconomy, doomsayers, doomsaying, doomsdayer, dynamotors, endomorphy, lycopodium, modulatory, monkeypods, monohybrid, monohydric, monorhymed.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

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Alternative Orthography: Moody


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 6F 6F 64 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

--    ---    ---    -..    -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01101111 01101111 01100100 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#111 &#111 &#100 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 006F 006F 0064 0079

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4781817091

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Quotations: Familiar
9. Quotations: Fiction
10. Quotations: Non-fiction
11. Quotations: Spoken
12. Usage Frequency
13. Names: Frequency
14. Cities
15. Expressions
16. Expressions: Internet
17. Translations: Modern
18. Derivations
19. Rhymes
20. Anagrams
21. Orthography
22. Bibliography


  

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