Word

mood, n.
(moods)
freq. cnt. 20

a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
<noun.feeling> freq. cnt.: 23 freq. cnt.: 14 freq. cnt.: 7 freq. cnt.: 2

humor humour mood temper

sample sentences

"whether he praised or cursed me depended on his temper at the time"
"he was in a bad humor"

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

moody

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

humor

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

humour

semantic pointers

hypernym

feeling

hyponym

peeve sulk, sulkiness good humor, good humour, good temper, amiability ill humor, ill humour, distemper

the prevailing psychological state
<noun.state> freq. cnt.: 9 freq. cnt.: 6 freq. cnt.: 3

climate mood

sample sentences

"the climate of opinion"
"the national mood had changed radically since the last election"

semantic pointers

hypernym

condition, status

verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker
<noun.relation>

modality mode mood

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

modal

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

modal

semantic pointers

hypernym

grammatical relation

hyponym

indicative mood, indicative, declarative mood, declarative, common mood, fact mood subjunctive mood, subjunctive optative mood, optative imperative mood, imperative, jussive mood, imperative form interrogative mood, interrogative