Mōōd'y, a.
a. [compar. MOODIER; superl. MOODIEST.] [A-S. mōdig, mōdeg.] 1. Indulging moods, or varying and capricious frames of mind; humorsome.
- Hence, out of humor; peevish; angry; fretful;—also, abstracted and pensive; sad; gloomy. “Every peevish, moody malcontent.” Rowe.
- Adapted to, or agreeing with, varying frames of mind. [Rare.]
Music, moody food Of us that trade in love. Shak. Syn.—Gloomy; pensive; sad; fretful; capricious; varying.—MOODY, GLOOMY. Moody agrees with gloomy in being an unhappy state, but differs from it in expressing a wide range of fitful emotions, such as discontent, ill humor, peevishness, anger, &c. Chide him reverently When you perceive his blood inclined to mirth; But being moody, give him line and scope, Till that his passions, like a whale on ground, Confound themselves with working. Shak. And moody madness laughing wild Amid severest woe. Gray.