mood Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
    humor; temper; humour.
    • whether he praised or cursed me depended on his temper at the time
    • he was in a bad humor
  2. noun the prevailing psychological state
    climate.
    • the climate of opinion
    • the national mood had changed radically since the last election
  3. noun verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker
    modality; mode.

WordNet

Mood noun
Etymology
The same word as mode, perh. influenced by mood temper. See Mode.
Definitions
  1. Manner; style; mode; logical form; musical style; manner of action or being. See Mode which is the preferable form).
  2. (Gram.) Manner of conceiving and expressing action or being, as positive, possible, hypothetical, etc., without regard to other accidents, such as time, person, number, etc.; as, the indicative mood; the infinitive mood; the subjunctive mood. Same as Mode.
Mood noun
Etymology
OE. mood, mod, AS. modmind, feeling, heart, courage; akin to OS. & OFries. mod, D. moed, OHG. muot, G. muth, mut, courage, Dan. & Sw. mod, Icel. mor wrath, Goth. mods.
Definitions
  1. Temper of mind; temporary state of the mind in regard to passion or feeling; humor; as, a melancholy mood; a suppliant mood.
    Till at the last aslaked was mood. Chaucer.
    Fortune is merry, And in this mood will give us anything. Shak.
    The desperate recklessness of her mood. Hawthorne.

Webster 1913