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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
mood
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a mood/sense of optimism
▪ A mood of optimism prevails in the White House.
be in a party mood (=want to enjoy yourself at a party)
▪ Kate wasn’t really in a party mood, so she stayed home.
expansive mood
▪ Hauser was in an expansive mood.
festive mood
▪ John was obviously in a festive mood.
filthy mood/temper
▪ Simon had been drinking and was in a filthy temper.
lighten the atmosphere/mood/conversation
▪ Nora didn’t respond to my attempts to lighten the conversation.
mood music
mood swings
▪ She suffers from mood swings.
mood...swing
▪ His mood could swing from joy to despair.
prevailing mood
▪ The prevailing mood of public opinion remained hostile.
receptive mood
▪ You might find them in a more receptive mood tomorrow.
sense sb’s mood (=be aware of how someone is feeling)
▪ He instinctively sensed her mood and changed the subject.
somber mood
▪ We were all in a somber mood that night.
suit sb's mood
▪ You can adjust the colour of the lighting to suit your mood.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
bad
▪ The feeling of contentment produced by gin-and-water had now disappeared, and the beadle was in a bad mood once more.
▪ Jerome had just changed his, but he was none the less still in a very bad mood.
▪ He was away all week and now arrived back on Friday evenings in a ready-made bad mood.
▪ No, our bad mood is caused by the bad mood of the adolescent children with whom we live.
▪ Today he was in a particularly bad mood.
▪ Despite bad moods and worse manners, the car could always be tamed by appreciation, patience and just enough rein.
▪ Ignore her, she is in a bad mood today.
confident
▪ At this stage in the negotiations, Green was in a relatively confident mood.
▪ Edward approached his third attempt to pass Responsions in a confident and relaxed mood.
▪ Then, on 22 March, the confident mood was poisoned.
▪ There was a confident mood at the rally in the park.
expansive
▪ He was in an expansive mood, and enjoyed chatting to the sales assistants.
▪ As noted, the frontier and the West had their own expansive mood.
▪ Mr. Salmond Given that the Minister is in such expansive mood I will press him on the matter of training.
▪ Why not go along with Luke's expansive mood for just so long as it took to finish her drink?
festive
▪ Richmond, you might say, is in festive mood, and the whole country can benefit from that.
▪ For the 1991 elections, the polling station in Lalmatia Girls High School had been in a festive mood.
foul
▪ That M. Dupont's arrived in the foulest mood imaginable.
general
▪ About time Paris was returned to the pedestrian was the general mood.
▪ In keeping with the general mood of the time, these novels tended to sentimentalize the past.
good
▪ I believe he was in a very good mood.
▪ I was surprised to see he was in a good mood.
▪ Because everyone was in such a good mood, he must have collected several thousand francs.
▪ Bill was in such a good mood these days.
▪ But everybody was in a good mood that morning, and his apologies were returned with a smile.
▪ But Joe does not argue or order another; the bartender has put him in a good mood.
▪ He was in a good mood, it looked like being one of those easy days.
▪ Suddenly, for the first time in months, I found myself in a very good mood.
national
▪ This did not suffice, but the national mood had changed.
▪ Isolationism reigned in the Congress, reflecting a national mood.
▪ His vivid persona might have been contrived, but it chimed in with the national mood.
▪ But it also may be a clue to the national mood.
▪ Already, they have contributed to great national mood swings.
▪ If the national mood is wrong, even the very best organisation is unlikely to win a local election.
new
▪ The new mood established in 1979 seemed amply confirmed.
▪ In keeping with the new mood at the company, Mr Newhouse has even toned down his own lifestyle a bit.
▪ Nor did she understand this new playful mood of fitzAlan's.
▪ A new mood quickly came over the wing as people realized how extensively they were changing for the better.
▪ There is a new mood afoot.
▪ But that may contain a fatal misreading of the new mood.
▪ The elements of the new mood are starting to shape the look of the Nineties.
▪ Every fashion comes with its own set of justifying phrases, and the new mood is no different.
optimistic
▪ And Dexter tried to calm his faint resentment against her for casting a shadow over his optimistic mood.
▪ The stock market reflected the more optimistic mood, with the FTSE-100 index closing up 18.2 at 2,400.9.
present
▪ Yet the present mood of well-being is curious.
▪ Dana was best left unanswered in her present mood.
▪ In the Sixties Gurus and pop music were the thing; the present mood is sombre and apocalyptic.
▪ She poured them more tea and he kept silent, anxious not to disturb her present mood.
▪ She reread Howard's End, twice, it was so beautifully fatalistic, she said, it suited her present mood.
▪ And to her, in her present mood, that meant tell Coffin.
▪ With the president in his present mood it is probably too optimistic to expect any improvement until after next year's election.
▪ But didn't the Party in its present mood need a touch of conciliation?
public
▪ But the public mood is more ambivalent.
▪ Despite such incidents, photocopies of articles critical of Niyazov circulate anyway, as do jokes that reflect the public mood.
▪ The public mood seemed to be that more organizations mean more bureaucracy, complexity and expense.
▪ New events, new information or simply an irrational wave of national dyspepsia can change public mood toward its leaders overnight.
▪ If you try and interpret the public mood, you become a bit of a slave.
▪ The public mood is necessarily confused.
▪ Indeed the long-term success of free-market policies depends on a change in public mood.
■ NOUN
change
▪ Yet when the stage is empty of mourners, there emerges a solitary dancer and the entire mood changes.
▪ Then, there are women who report having mood changes premenstrually that they find upsetting.
▪ Neil's reminder of Jett's quick mood changes niggled in my mind like biscuit crumbs in the bed.
▪ Why should daily mood changes not be mental disorders if monthly ones are?
disorder
▪ Origins of schizophrenia Schizophrenia is primarily a thought disorder, whereas depression is dominated by a mood disorder.
▪ The data is similar, though not as strong, for mood disorders.
▪ Exactly the same as the mood disorders and behavioural characteristics of the primary disease.
▪ Both schizophrenia and mood disorders show evidence of decreased activity in frontal lobes and abnormal function of the system for directed attention.
▪ Some patients had a short lived mood disorder, which would be likely to resolve rapidly, perhaps without treatment.
▪ Seiden suspects that the long-term result could be depression, anxiety, sleeplessness, and other mood disorders.
▪ Poets seem to have the highest rates of mood disorders and suicide.
music
▪ But it's mood music, really - that's how I see the band.
▪ Certainly, the mood music of summitry was transformed by the end of the Cold War.
▪ Start with the mood music, where Maastricht sets a tone but not much more.
swing
▪ His mood swings are generally only related to the latest project he's working on.
▪ Loi was well on his way down into the depths of a mood swing.
▪ They caused me to have terrible mood swings and it put my relationship with Stuart under a lot of strain.
▪ The mood swing was worrying, but at least it was an upbeat beginning to the day.
▪ It was the beginning of a frustrating period for Hunt and his mood swings were on the downturn.
▪ It gives you enormous mood swings, which nobody told me about.
▪ Pat Jerrom says Danniella had violent mood swings and threatened to commit suicide.
▪ A woman who is not ovulating escapes the sharp changes in hormone levels that can lead to mood swings.
■ VERB
affect
▪ Colour can affect mood and create atmosphere.
▪ Depression is a leading cause of suicide in the elderly, and also affects mood, behavior and physical health.
▪ The answer to that may be that lowering cholesterol influences the level of serotonin, a neurotransmitter which affects mood.
▪ However, because she is so perceptive, she can some-times be too affected by the moods and feelings of others.
▪ In addition they have to appreciate that all movement is affected by moods, emotions and actions.
▪ The smell is faint and subtle, but it powerfully affects my mood.
▪ This is one way in which food may affect mood and drowsiness.
▪ Every aspect of government policy was affected by the new mood.
capture
▪ This is ideal for note-taking or capturing the mood of a shot in the accompanying audio.
▪ Mount Williamson, Sierra Nevada, from Manzanar, captures this mood.
▪ I am talking about phrases which speak to the country by capturing its mood or its hopes.
▪ The soundtrack captures the mood of the film with some macho exciting music combined with some mellow saddle-up-and-ride-into-the sunset stuff.
▪ No one has captured the moods of the sea better than Claude Debussy in his symphonic sketches, La Mer.
▪ But Michael Foot was a formidable orator and on occasions he could coin a phrase which captured the mood perfectly.
create
▪ All colours create moods and illusions.
▪ This evenness of meter creates the mood of impersonal curiosity characterizing the poem.
▪ What part does repetition play in creating a mood of sorrow, of hopelessness?
▪ Remember, good news creates a good mood.
▪ Accompaniment is like this permeating background tone, creating the mood, influencing all that is added to it.
▪ He creates his mood with two factors: harmony and rhythm.
▪ It not only creates mood, it is also the chief unifying factor of the music, which otherwise is somewhat fragmentary.
▪ Do we want to create a restless mood, or a calm, pacific one?
lighten
▪ Just trying to lighten the mood a bit.
▪ The sun was streaming in through the window, yet it did nothing to lighten his mood.
▪ Don't paint the red apple as seen, brighten and lighten its mood or subdue and cool its expression.
match
▪ It was a grey, rain-streaked day and the lessons had matched the mood of the morning.
▪ Right now the bitter taste matched her mood.
▪ Her own wardrobe is extensive - with an outfit to match every mood.
▪ Pearle Vision insists that you need two pairs of glasses so that your frames can match your mood.
▪ It matched her mood, and her movements against him were desperate with hunger.
▪ She chose a dark green fitted dress - not quite in mourning, but a sombre colour to match her mood.
▪ The dale had weather to match every mood, Ruth thought.
▪ With one to match every mood, you know it makes scents!
reflect
▪ Cheney's announcement nevertheless reflected a mood of caution at the Department of Defence.
▪ Despite such incidents, photocopies of articles critical of Niyazov circulate anyway, as do jokes that reflect the public mood.
▪ The bags under their eyes reflect the wild mood swings that have afflicted the party since the first week.
▪ Isolationism reigned in the Congress, reflecting a national mood.
▪ Easy Rider happened to become the film of the moment because it reflected the mood of the moment.
▪ The main colour in your scheme should reflect this mood.
▪ As usual Congress reflects the mood.
▪ The stock market reflected the more optimistic mood, with the FTSE-100 index closing up 18.2 at 2,400.9.
set
▪ This can set a mood or enhance a period of reflection.
▪ Just as warm and cool colors visually manipulate the size of a garden, they set the mood as well.
▪ I'd just set off wherever the mood took me.
▪ First, silents were never silent; the accompanying music was as important to setting the mood as the pictures.
▪ In 1979 Labour was obviously in a panic - that set the mood.
▪ The poetry of the first four volumes depends heavily on the simile to set the mood of the poem.
▪ Bedroom lighting is particularly important in setting a mood, and for guests who read or work.
▪ That kind of really sets the mood.
suit
▪ But it had suited her mood, too.
▪ Sculptors after this give statues of women a new dress which better suits the changed mood.
▪ She reread Howard's End, twice, it was so beautifully fatalistic, she said, it suited her present mood.
▪ It suited Charles' melancholy mood well.
▪ It doesn't suit the mood.
▪ The physical privation of lying for hours on cold wood suited her mood.
▪ With the paths so well marked it's easy to make up walks to suit your mood and fitness.
▪ Willis Meals to suit every mood from self-service snacks to cafe society fare served in elegant luxury.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be in a bad mood
▪ I had to wait two hours for the train, which really put me in a bad mood.
▪ Why were you in such a bad mood this morning?
▪ But I was in a bad mood with myself.
▪ He seems to be in a bad mood about something.
▪ Ignore her, she is in a bad mood today.
▪ Maybe he was in a bad mood.
▪ Nubenehem was in a bad mood, reaching for her liquor jar and belching.
▪ Sister Isabel is in a bad mood.
▪ The feeling of contentment produced by gin-and-water had now disappeared, and the beadle was in a bad mood once more.
in a foul mood/temper
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Back at the Fernandez house, the mood was glum.
▪ Darla's a typical teenager - her moods change like lightning.
▪ In keeping with the general mood of the time, these novels tended to sentimentalize the past.
▪ Labor leaders figured that given the political mood of the time, Truman was the best candidate.
▪ Mondovi provoked severe unrest, contributing to the rebellious mood of the entire region.
▪ Pessimism replaced the mood of democratic optimism that existed before World War I.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ According to the few aid workers remaining in the town, the mood there is tense.
▪ But if his mood was optimistic, the stakes have never been more serious.
▪ But then, his mood suddenly darkens.
▪ Fen seemed to be in an amiable mood today.
▪ His ears pricked themselves to attention as he became aware of the master's mood.
▪ Sometimes the Party establishment, in its political moods, falls to judge the mood of its new recruits.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mood

Mood \Mood\, n. [OE. mood, mod, AS. m[=o]dmind, feeling, heart, courage; akin to OS. & OFries. m[=o]d, D. moed, OHG. muot, G. muth, mut, courage, Dan. & Sw. mod, Icel. m[=o][eth]r wrath, Goth. m[=o]ds.] Temper of mind; temporary state of the mind in regard to passion or feeling; humor; as, a melancholy mood; a suppliant mood.

Till at the last aslaked was his mood.
--Chaucer.

Fortune is merry, And in this mood will give us anything.
--Shak.

The desperate recklessness of her mood.
--Hawthorne.

Mood

Mood \Mood\ (m[=oo]d), n. [The same word as mode, perh. influenced by mood temper. See Mode.]

  1. Manner; style; mode; logical form; musical style; manner of action or being. See Mode which is the preferable form).

  2. (Gram.) Manner of conceiving and expressing action or being, as positive, possible, conditional, hypothetical, obligatory, imperitive, etc., without regard to other accidents, such as time, person, number, etc.; as, the indicative mood; the imperitive mood; the infinitive mood; the subjunctive mood. Same as Mode.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mood

"emotional condition, frame of mind," Old English mod "heart, frame of mind, spirit; courage, arrogance, pride; power, violence," from Proto-Germanic *motha- (cognates: Old Saxon mod "mind, courage," Old Frisian mod "intellect, mind, intention," Old Norse moðr "wrath, anger," Middle Dutch moet, Dutch moed, Old High German muot, German Mut "courage," Gothic moþs "courage, anger"), of unknown origin.\n

\nA much more vigorous word in Anglo-Saxon than currently, and used widely in compounds (such as modcræftig "intelligent," modful "proud"). To be in the mood "willing (to do something)" is from 1580s. First record of mood swings is from 1942.

mood

"grammatical form indicating the function of a verb," 1560s, an alteration of mode (n.1), but the grammatical and musical (1590s) usages of it influenced the meaning of mood (n.1) in phrases such as light-hearted mood.

Wiktionary
mood

Etymology 1 n. 1 A mental or emotional state, composure. 2 A sullen mental state; a bad mood. 3 A disposition to do something. 4 (senseid en prevalent atmosphere) A prevalent atmosphere or feeling. Etymology 2

n. (context grammar English) A verb form that depends on how its containing clause relates to the speaker’s or writer’s wish, intent, or assertion about reality.

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WordNet
mood

  1. n. a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling; "whether he praised or cursed me depended on his temper at the time"; "he was in a bad humor" [syn: temper, humor, humour]

  2. the prevailing psychological state; "the climate of opinion"; "the national mood had changed radically since the last election" [syn: climate]

  3. verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker [syn: mode, modality]

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Wikipedia
Mood (psychology)

A mood is an emotional state. Moods differ from emotions, feelings, or affects in that they are less specific, less intense, and less likely to be triggered by a particular stimulus or event. Moods are typically described as having either a positive or negative valence. In other words, people usually speak of being in a good mood or a bad mood.

Mood also differs from temperament or personality traits which are even longer lasting. Nevertheless, personality traits such as optimism and neuroticism predispose certain types of moods. Long term disturbances of mood such as clinical depression and bipolar disorder are considered mood disorders. Mood is an internal, subjective state but it often can be inferred from posture and other behaviors. "We can be sent into a mood by an unexpected event, from the happiness of seeing an old friend to the anger of discovering betrayal by a partner. We may also just fall into a mood."

Research also shows that a person's mood can influence how they process advertising. Mood has been found to interact with gender to affect consumer processing of information.

Mood (band)

MOOD is a hip hop group based in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, composed of rappers Main Flow, Donte, and record producer Jahson. Originally formed under the name of Three Below Zero, they wound up changing their name to Mood in 1994. They first came to prominence with the Hi-Tek produced single "Hustle on the Side" in 1996. Their 1997 album Doom featured production by a young Hi-Tek and a guest appearance by Talib Kweli.

In 2000, they appeared on "Mission Control Presents", a compilation which featured acts associated with producer Jahson and his record label Mission Control. There were three Mood tracks and three tracks that featured Mood as part of a larger group called Elite Terrorist. Main Flow and Donte are also featured individually on a number of tracks.

Music videos for hit songs "Hustle On The Side" and "Karma" were produced and aired worldwide. Most notably winning awards on regional and international video programs Video Music Box, Urban Reality, Rap City and DrunkinStyle TV.

Mood currently released their long awaited follow up to Doom entitled Live Again. In the interim, Jahson has an album out as does Main Flow (entitled Flow Season along with 7L), Donte is also planning a solo release.

Donte recently hinted on Instagram that there is a new album coming, and that it will be called Doom 2, since June 2016 Mood - Unreleased 93-95 EP are available.

Mood (literature)

Mood is one element in the narrative structure of a piece of literature. It can also be referred to as atmosphere because it creates an emotional setting enveloping the reader. Mood is established in order to affect the reader emotionally and psychologically and to provide a feeling for the narrative.

Mood

Mood may refer to:

  • Mood (psychology), a relatively long lasting emotional state
  • Grammatical mood, one of a set of morphologically distinctive forms that are used to signal modality
  • Mood (literature), the affective setting of a piece of literature
  • Robert Mood (born 1958), Norwegian general

Music

  • The Mood, a British pop band from 1981 to 1984
  • Mood (band), hip hop artists
  • Moods (Barbara Mandrell album), 1978
  • Moods (Mal Waldron album), 1978
  • Moods (Neil Diamond album), 1972
  • Moods (The Three Sounds album), 1960
  • Moods (Monday Michiru album), 2003
  • The Mood (EP), 2013 EP by F.T. Island

Places

  • Mood (city), a city in Iran
  • Mood District, a district in Iran
  • MOOD Designer Fabrics, a store in New York City frequented by contestants of Project Runway
  • Mood, Leh, a village in Ladakh, India
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Usage examples of "mood".

As the to and fro of the pendulum, so the abient and adient swings of his mood.

In many of his contemporaries also much the same fluctuation of mood was occurring, and to them as to Paul it seemed that the issue lay between the old faith, however modernized, and the complete abnegation of human dignity.

The same women that despised Sky Eyes, that gossiped about her and futilely forbade their sons to come near her, they came for abortifacients, joint easers, the silvery drink that brought one out of a dark mood, a dozen other things.

He felt in no mood for conversation, and as he sipped his absinth he let his mind run rather sorrowfully over the past few weeks of his life.

April gambolled in like a lamb this year, and taking a cue from his sprightly kick-up-your-heels mood, the Spring season was all aflutter with the gay bustle of arrivals and departures.

The aftereffects of Aggressor included mood swings, angry outbursts, and emotional coldness.

The tremor with which she had faced this her first evening in general society had allayed itself almost as soon as she entered the room, giving place to a kind of pleasure for which she was not at all prepared, a pleasure inconsistent with the mood which governed her life.

Will Trager rode through the field, plagued as always by a black mood.

I am sure, from my own experience, that a lady amanuensis would suit your purpose much better than a man: she would be more patient, more willing to accommodate herself to your moods, in every way more available.

This put my picaro amigo into a black mood, and I spent the day away from the camp to keep the wrath of his boot toe away from my backside.

When I went to bed I did not find my mistress in any amorous transports, but in a wanton and merry mood.

That exchange put me in a less than pleasant mood, and when Amrita emerged in her silk robe she took one look in the bag and announced that it was the wrong fabric.

He was, Asey noted, in what Cummings always referred to as a pre - confront mood.

I awoke in an active mood, and began to write a letter to Voltaire in blank verse, which cost me four times the pains that rhymed verses would have done.

Whereas, he thinks, Protestantism has died, or is dying, as a religion, it still exists as a mood, as bibliolatry, as a national and political cult, as a scientific and technical motive-power, and, last but not least, as the ethos and pathos of the Germanic peoples.