| NOUN | feeling | mood, temper, humor, humour | a characteristic / characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| Rhymes | accrued ... vicissitude: 66 rhymes with uwd... | |
| Meaning | A characteristic / characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling. | |
|---|---|---|
| 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. | |
|---|---|---|
| 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. | |
|---|---|---|
| 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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