If you describe someone as moody, you mean that their feelings and behaviour change frequently, and in particular that they often become depressed or angry without any warning. David's mother was unstable and moody + moodily moodi·ly He sat and stared moodily out the window. + moodiness moodi·ness His moodiness may have been caused by his poor health
United States tennis player who dominated women's tennis in the 1920s and 1930s (born in 1906)
United States evangelist (1837-1899) United States tennis player who dominated women's tennis in the 1920s and 1930s (born in 1906) subject to sharply varying moods; "a temperamental opera singer
Hence: Out of humor; peevish; angry; fretful; also, abstracted and pensive; sad; gloomy; melancholy
Subject to varying moods, especially to states of mind which are unamiable or depressed
showing a brooding ill humor; "a dark scowl"; "the (Atasözü)ially 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"
If you describe a picture, film, or piece of music as moody, you mean that it suggests particular emotions, especially sad ones. moody black and white photographs. = atmospheric. See Helen Newington Wills. adj. Moody Dwight Lyman Helen Newington Wills Moody Roark Helen Wills Moody