資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.

資料來源 : WordNet®

moody
     adj 1: 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}]
     n 1: 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}]
     2: United States evangelist (1837-1899) [syn: {Dwight Lyman
        Moody}]
     [also: {moodiest}, {moodier}]

moodier
     See {moody}