MOODY

a.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

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

2.
a.

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.