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Moodier

Moody \Mood"y\, a. [Compar. Moodier; superl. Moodiest.] [AS. m[=o]dig courageous.]

  1. Subject to varying moods, especially to states of mind which are unamiable or depressed.

  2. Hence: Out of humor; peevish; angry; fretful; also, abstracted and pensive; sad; gloomy; melancholy. ``Every peevish, moody malcontent.''
    --Rowe.

    Arouse thee from thy moody dream!
    --Sir W. Scott.

    Syn: Gloomy; pensive; sad; fretful; capricious.

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moodier

a. (en-comparativemoody)

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moody

  1. adj. 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" [syn: dark, dour, glowering, glum, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen]

  2. subject to sharply varying moods; "a temperamental opera singer" [syn: temperamental]

  3. n. United States tennis player who dominated women's tennis in the 1920s and 1930s (born in 1906) [syn: Helen Wills Moody, Helen Wills, Helen Newington Wills]

  4. United States evangelist (1837-1899) [syn: Dwight Lyman Moody]

  5. [also: moodiest, moodier]

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Usage examples of "moodier".

There was Ito, and Ernst and others, who grew moodier and moodier—Ito because all the other officers had gone with Emilio.

Yes, because Lod is Luk, the enhanced version, the primary DNA having been revised and corrected to produce a second synthetic man, superficially an exact replication, but with all features heightened: he's stronger, swifter, smarter, and also meaner, moodier, and madder.

Often I get bored with lengthy descriptive flights into fantasy land, but Holdstock's got a gift for producing vivid images rich in archetypal resonance that give his imagined landscapes a moodier, more compelling feel than most: giant statues that have turned skeletal as they've aged, a snow-covered harbor crowded with scuttled hulls trapped in the ice, the approach to an ancient city: "Above the low gate was the skull of a bull.