Synonyms for moody
ˈmu dimoody

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1. moody

   Synonyms:
   sullen, humorsome, gloomy, morose

   Antonyms:
   blithe, genial, sociable, merry

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1. Moody, Helen Wills Moody, Helen Wills, Helen Newington Willsnoun

   United States tennis player who dominated women's tennis in the 1920s and 1930s (1905-1998)

   Antonyms:
   good-natured, unemotional

2. Moody, Dwight Lyman Moodyadjective

   United States evangelist (1837-1899)

   Antonyms:
   unemotional, good-natured

3. dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullenadjective

   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"

   Synonyms:
   pertinacious, heavy, forbidding, glum, sullen, dogged, dark, non-white, temperamental, threatening, coloured, disconsolate, dark-skinned, black, gloomy, drear, benighted, off, blue, glowering, obscure, sour, sinister, turned, grim, saturnine, tenacious, off-key, dour, false, unyielding, sorry, drab, dingy, dreary, dismal, persistent, lowering, rancid, morose

   Antonyms:
   good-natured, unemotional

4. moody, temperamentaladjective

   subject to sharply varying moods

   "a temperamental opera singer"

   Synonyms:
   dark, sullen, morose, dour, temperamental, erratic, sour, glowering, saturnine, glum

   Antonyms:
   good-natured, unemotional

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1. moodyadjective

   Synonyms:
   angry, petulant, irritable, snappish, pettish, sour, crusty, crabbed, waspish, captious, snarling, peevish, testy, fretful, ill-tempered, out of humor, out of temper

2. moodyadjective

   Synonyms:
   sullen, perverse, wayward, sulky, humorsome, glum, grum, glowering, morose, spleeny, frowning, stubborn, dogged, intractable, cross-grained

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1. List of paraphrases for "moody":

   modi, lunatic, mercurial, morose, irritable, quirky, fickle

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1. Nigel Rendell:

   If Ramaphosa does not come up with a solution to this crisis soon, there is a good chance Moody's will remove South Africa's last investment-grade credit rating, eskom is the biggest issue hanging over financial markets, and there won't be a happy ending unless there is a significant capital injection from somewhere.

2. Barbara Robles-Ramamurthy:

   It's very normal for your child to start getting a little more moody and defiant, but if you start seeing drastic changes, their academic performance is declining, they're not spending as much time with family or isolating themselves, those are big red flags.

3. Ozgur Altug:

   Moody's seems to be more sensitive to political developments than other agencies. Moody's has kept Turkey's outlook at negative since April 2014, which is a very long period for a rating agency, so there is a sizeable risk of a downgrade.

4. Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov:

   I consider the evaluation of Moody's not simply extremely negative, but based on extremely pessimistic forecasts that have no analogies today.

5. Griff Aldrich:

   DeShaun came in here -- I’m glad he’s not in here — but he was moody when he got to Longwood, i still remember at the beginning of his first summer with us, he was politely excused from practice because of that moodiness. He has just dramatically transformed as a young man to understanding our culture, then embracing it, and now he sets the standard.