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Moody synonyms

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saturnine
Gloomy, depressed, dull
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  1. Gloomy, depressed, dull
  2. Melancholy or sullen.
  3. Having or marked by a tendency to be bitter or sardonic:
pensive
Thinking deeply or seriously, often of sad or melancholy things
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  1. Thinking deeply or seriously, often of sad or melancholy things
  2. Engaged in deep and serious thought.
unhappy
Not suitable; inappropriate:
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  1. Not suitable; inappropriate:
  2. Sad; wretched; sorrowful
  3. Not happy or joyful; sad or sorrowful:
temperamental
Erratic in behavior; unpredictable
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  1. Erratic in behavior; unpredictable
  2. Likely to perform unpredictably; undependable:
  3. Having an excitable temperament; easily upset
dour
Marked by sternness or harshness; forbidding:
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  1. Marked by sternness or harshness; forbidding:
  2. (Scot.) Hard; stern; severe
  3. Sullen; gloomy; forbidding
gloomy
Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded.
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  1. Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded.
  2. Very sad or dejected; hopeless; melancholy
  3. Morose or sullen
glum
Feeling or looking gloomy, sullen, or morose
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  1. Feeling or looking gloomy, sullen, or morose
  2. Moody and melancholy; dejected.
  3. Gloomy; dismal.
morose
Characterized by gloom
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  1. Characterized by gloom
  2. Ill-tempered; gloomy, sullen, etc.
  3. Sullenly melancholy; gloomy.
sour
Distasteful or unpleasant
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  1. Distasteful or unpleasant
  2. Displeased with something one formerly admired or liked; disenchanted:
  3. Bad-tempered and morose; peevish:
sulky
Showing resentment or dissatisfaction by petulant or peevish withdrawal
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  1. Showing resentment or dissatisfaction by petulant or peevish withdrawal
  2. Gloomy; dismal; sullen
  3. (Often derogatory) silent and withdrawn after being upset
sullen
Gloomy or somber in tone, color, or portent:
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  1. Gloomy or somber in tone, color, or portent:
  2. Showing a brooding ill humor or silent resentment; morose or sulky.
  3. Gloomy; dismal; sad; depressing
Find another word for moody. In this page you can discover 16 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for moody, like: saturnine, pensive, unhappy, low-spirited, sad, temperamental, dour, gloomy, glum, morose and sour.

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  • The moody teenager was back.

  • Among them were some of those men of mark who made the backbone of the American character: the sturdy Puritan, Peter Bulkeley, sometime rector of Odell in Bedfordshire, and afterward pastor of the church in the wilderness at Concord, New Hampshire; the zealous evangelist, Father Samuel Moody of Agamenticus in Maine, who pursued graceless sinners even into the alehouse; Joseph Emerson of Malden, "a heroic scholar," who prayed every night that no descendant of his might ever be rich; and William Emerson of Concord, Mass., the patriot preacher, who died while serving in the army of the Revolution.

  • She'd never been moody or wimpy or weak!

  • I'm fed up with moody women today.

  • In that light, his reaction to her appeared less like that of a moody homicidal maniac and more like one of a jilted lover.

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