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ˈmu dimoody

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Moody, Helen Wills Moody, Helen Wills, Helen Newington Willsnoun

    United States tennis player who dominated women's tennis in the 1920s and 1930s (1905-1998)

  2. Moody, Dwight Lyman Moodyadjective

    United States evangelist (1837-1899)

  3. dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullenadjective

    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"

  4. moody, temperamentaladjective

    subject to sharply varying moods

    "a temperamental opera singer"

Wiktionary

  1. moodyadjective

    given to sudden or frequent changes of mind; temperamental

  2. moodyadjective

    sulky or depressed

  3. moodyadjective

    dour, gloomy or brooding

  4. Etymology: From modig, from. Cognate with Dutch moedig, German mutig, Swedish modig.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Moodyadjective

    Etymology: from mood.

    How now, moody?
    What is’t thou canst demand? William Shakespeare, Tempest.

    Chide him rev’rently,
    When you perceive his blood inclin’d to mirth;
    But being moody, give him line and scope,
    Till that his passions, like a whale on ground,
    Confound themselves with working. William Shakespeare, Henry IV.

    Every peevish, moody malecontent
    Shall set the senseless rabble in an uproar? Nicholas Rowe.

    Give me some musick; musick, moody food
    Of us that trade in love. William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra.

ChatGPT

  1. moody

    Moody refers to a person or individual who frequently changes their feelings, emotions or dispositions, often switching between happiness, sadness, irritability, enthusiasm, or indifference without a specific reason or pattern. These shifts in mood can occur rapidly or gradually, and may affect the person's behavior, decisions, or interactions with others. It can also refer to atmosphere or ambiance that evoke a particular kind of feeling or emotion.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Moody

    subject to varying moods, especially to states of mind which are unamiable or depressed

  2. Moody

    hence: Out of humor; peevish; angry; fretful; also, abstracted and pensive; sad; gloomy; melancholy

Wikidata

  1. Moody

    Moody is a city in McLennan County, Texas, United States. The population was 1,378 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Waco Metropolitan Statistical Area.

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. MOODY

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Moody is ranked #519 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Moody surname appeared 64,429 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 22 would have the surname Moody.

    71.2% or 45,919 total occurrences were White.
    22.8% or 14,728 total occurrences were Black.
    2.7% or 1,746 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    1.9% or 1,256 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    0.7% or 490 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
    0.4% or 283 total occurrences were Asian.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of moody in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of moody in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of moody in a Sentence

  1. Patrick Esteruelas:

    We shouldn't underestimate the follow-up impact we could see when Fitch or Moody's converge with S&P, (It) will induce some additional forced selling as the sovereign and corporates drop out of the investment-grade indices.

  2. James Rauh:

    [FAF] welcomes Attorney General Moody’s urgent call to have illicit fentanyl declared a Weapon of Mass Destruction, and applaud her for taking this powerful stand, wMD designation currently has bipartisan support in Congress. With A.G. Moody’s announcement today, the movement continues to grow.

  3. Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov:

    I consider the evaluation of Moody's not simply extremely negative, but based on extremely pessimistic forecasts that have no analogies today.

  4. Barbara Robles-Ramamurthy:

    It's very normal for your child to start getting a little more moody and defiant, but if you start seeing drastic changes, their academic performance is declining, they're not spending as much time with family or isolating themselves, those are big red flags.

  5. Dave Hager:

    We can't just chase investment grade rating when it's uncertain with Moody's what the criteria is that they're going to use, we're going to focus less on that and make sure that we make the right decisions for the business overall, for our shareholders and for our bondholders.

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