NOUN | feeling | mood, temper, humor, humour | a characteristic / characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling |
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state | mood, climate | the prevailing psychological state | |
relation | mood, mode, modality | verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker |
Sounds | muw'd | |
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Rhymes | accrued ... vicissitude: 66 rhymes with uwd... |
Meaning | A characteristic / characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling. | |
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Synonyms | temper, humor, humour | |
Narrower | good humor, good humour, good temper, amiability | A cheerful and agreeable mood |
ill humor, ill humour, distemper | An angry and disagreeable mood | |
peeve | An annoyed or irritated mood | |
sulk, sulkiness | A mood or display of sullen aloofness or withdrawal | |
Broader | feeling | The experiencing of affective and emotional states |
Spanish | estado de ánimo, humor, temperamento | |
Catalan | humor, temperament | |
Adjectives | moody | subject to sharply varying moods |
Meaning | The prevailing psychological state. | |
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Example | "the national mood had changed radically since the last election" | |
Synonym | climate | |
Broader | condition, status | A state at a particular time |
Spanish | clima, estado de ánimo, humor | |
Catalan | clima, humor |
Meaning | Verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker. | |
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Synonyms | mode, modality | |
Narrower | imperative mood, imperative, jussive mood, imperative form | A mood that expresses an intention to influence the listener's behavior |
indicative mood, indicative, declarative mood, declarative, common mood, fact mood | A mood (grammatically unmarked) that represents the act or state as an objective fact | |
interrogative mood, interrogative | Some linguists consider interrogative sentences to constitute a mood | |
optative mood, optative | A mood (as in Greek or Sanskrit) that expresses a wish or hope / hope | |
subjunctive mood, subjunctive | A mood that represents an act or state (not as a fact but) as contingent or possible | |
Broader | grammatical relation | A linguistic relation established by grammar |
Spanish | modo | |
Catalan | mode |
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