What is "moodiest"

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.

a. (en-superlativemoody)

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]

See moody