If I must speak the schoolmaster‘s language, I will confess that character comes of this infinitive mood, [Greek: charassen], which signifies to engrave, or make a deep impression.
«were is a neuter verb, of the indicative mood, imperfect tense.
«There is, indeed, one form of orthography which is a kin to the subjunctive mood of the Latin tongue.
[Footnote 2: ‘let,‘ imperative mood.]
When he commands, ancient hatreds perish, and angry moods, be they old or new, give place to his fires; and lastly, his sway has such far—reaching influence that even stepmothers become gracious to their stepchildren, a thing which it is a marvel to behold.
The Indicative mood is that form of the verb, which simply indicates or declares a thing: as, I write; you know: or asks a question; as, «Do you know?»»Know ye not?« The Potential mood is that form of the verb which expresses the power, liberty, possibility, or necessity, of the being, action, or passion: as, «I can walk; he may ride; we must go.
The grave and thoughtful mood of last night had gone with her slumbers.
« The swift horse galloped out of sight; in melancholy mood, The knight, unhorsed and helmetless, his lonely path pursued.
The next morning, Saturday, Old Heck came to the breakfast table again in a pensive mood.
Yet as the English lady went from group to group in company with Miss Lydia and T.H. Hexter‘s wife, her quick eyes wandered across the room to where a bright head rose a little taller than its fellows, and occasional bursts of laughter told that Johnnie was in a merry mood.
Aunt Jane was not in an especially amiable mood.
« The mob was by this time in an ugly mood and the nearer Joe and Arthur edged toward the printing office the more numerous their enemies became.
That evening in her room, Lady Mary, in a very cheerful mood, sat by a little bright unnecessary fire, with her writing—book before her, waiting till she should be sleepy.
The only mark it had left upon her was that air of womanly knowledge that clothed her like a garment even in her lightest moods.
The Moor is filled with desperate rage, for he sees the hour is fled When day by day the dazzling ray of sunlight gilds that head, And he stops to brood in desperate mood, for her alone he yearns Can aught soothe the fire of fierce desire with which his bosom burns.
The elder brother of my friend Augustus assisted me in this perplexity; pushing us all forward, as if in a playful mood, he drove us indiscriminately before him, saying, «I will make one among you to—day.«
Louise gracefully assisted her cousin to draw Aunt Jane into a more genial mood, and between them they presently succeeded.
Why the bitter mood?« «I discover I am like the rest of youlike all Rome.
And perhaps this is one of the commonest subjective assurances of faith, namely, that our faith grows and declines with what we know intuitively to be our better moods; that when lax we are sceptical, and believing when conscientious.
« This list, moreover, does not accurately name a single one of the essential ingredients of true love, dwelling only on associated phenomena, whereas Shakspere‘s lines call attention to three states of mind which form part of the quintessence of romantic lovegallant «service,« «adoration,« and «purity»while «patience and impatience« may perhaps be accepted as an equivalent of what I call the mixed moods of hope and despair.
An exalted mood was on her nowa mood that they all knew well.
If a gloomy mood prevails in youas might come from a bad turn of the marketyou fancy that the evil daughter of Herodias still lives around the corner, and that she has set out her victims to the general view.
When Ossian from Knockfarrel went, a band Of merry maidens, trooping hand in hand, Came forth, with laughing eyes and flowing hair, To share the freedom of the morning air; Adown the steep they went, and through the wood Where Garry splintered logs in sullen mood Pining to join the chase!
Galahad was in his usual gay mood.
We had not made much progress when we startled, from what was doubtless a contemplative mood, a very fine jay.
Hi English learners! Improve your English vocabulary with today’s lesson. Here are 24 adjectives to describe moods. Here is the list:
- Anxious
- Affectionate
- Calm
- Careless
- Cheerful
- Despairing
- Furious
- Gloomy
- Gregarious
- Hopeful
- Inspired
- Introspective
- Lonely
- Melancholic
- Nostalgic
- Optimistic
- Pessimistic
- Pensive
- Reckless
- Reflective
- Reserved
- Sullen
- Sluggish
- Tense
Adjectives to describe MOODS
Anxious
Meaning: feeling worried because you expect something bad to happen.
- As the weather got worse Peter became more and more anxious about the crops.
Affectionate
Meaning: showing feelings or love for somebody.
- Sara is very affectionate towards her children. She is always hugging and kissing them.
Calm
Meaning: worriless and peaceful, without hurry or nervousness.
- Our boss is always calm under pressure.
Careless
Meaning: not paying much attention to what you are doing and that way cause damage or make mistakes.
- John is so careless. Look, he’s texting a friend while driving.
Adjectives to describe MOODS
Cheerful
Meaning: being positive, happy, joyful.
- Samantha has been in a cheerful mood all day because her boyfriend proposed to her.
Despairing
Meaning: feeling down, hopeless.
- After his mother died, Sean seemed to be more and more despairing.
Furious
Meaning: extremely angry.
- Celia was furious when she found out that her brother took her car.
Gloomy
Meaning: feeling dark and negative, hopeless, depressed.
- Sophia couldn’t help but feel gloomy when she got the medical test results.
Gregarious
Meaning: enjoying other people’s company, friendly, outgoing.
- George is always so gregarious and outgoing. He has a lot of friends.
Adjectives to describe MOODS
Hopeful
Meaning: full of hope, positive, optimistic.
- Ever since he won money in the lottery, Simon has become more hopeful about the future.
Inspired
Meaning: feeling excited and uplifting.
- Sandra felt so inspired for drawing by the lake when she heard the weather forecast.
Introspective
Meaning: thinking a lot about your own feelings and ideas.
- Laura was an introspective person who enjoyed her own company.
Lonely
Meaning: feeling sad because you are alone and don’t have any friends or some other company.
- So many old people are living alone today and most of them feel more or less lonely.
Melancholic
Meaning: feeling very sad or depressed.
- Robert was a bit melancholic and sad.
Nostalgic
Meaning: feeling unhappy when you remember some time in the past when you were happy.
- Most people feel nostalgic when they first move abroad.
Optimistic
Meaning: feeling positive, hopeful, emphasizing the good side of a situation rather than a bad one.
- When the meeting ended, Mr Tompson felt rather optimistic about the project.
Pessimistic
Meaning: opposite from optimistic; tending to think about bad things rather than positive and good ones.
- After reading the newspapers, Paul felt very pessimistic about his candidate winning the election.
Pensive
Meaning: thinking about something deeply and seriously.
- When she returned from Australia, Vera was often absent and pensive.
Reckless
Meaning: showing very little care about your doings.
- Brian tends to be a bit reckless, especially when it comes to money.
Reflective
Meaning: spending lots of time in your head, thinking deeply and quietly.
- After the movie, she was in a reflective mood for quite some time.
Reserved
Meaning: not showing or talking about your feelings much.
- Ryan was quite a reserved, quiet man.
Sullen
Meaning: being in a bad mood and unwilling to talk.
- Jason was sitting with a sullen face and refused to say why he felt that way.
Sluggish
Meaning: having less energy than normal and therefore feeling kind of lazy.
- Bob couldn’t help but feel a bit sluggish and sleepy after dinner.
Tense
Meaning: unable to relax, worried and nervous.
- Saunders was usually very tense before exams.
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The idea for the Describing Words engine came when I was building the engine for Related Words (it’s like a thesaurus, but gives you a much broader set of related words, rather than just synonyms). While playing around with word vectors and the «HasProperty» API of conceptnet, I had a bit of fun trying to get the adjectives which commonly describe a word. Eventually I realised that there’s a much better way of doing this: parse books!
Project Gutenberg was the initial corpus, but the parser got greedier and greedier and I ended up feeding it somewhere around 100 gigabytes of text files — mostly fiction, including many contemporary works. The parser simply looks through each book and pulls out the various descriptions of nouns.
Hopefully it’s more than just a novelty and some people will actually find it useful for their writing and brainstorming, but one neat little thing to try is to compare two nouns which are similar, but different in some significant way — for example, gender is interesting: «woman» versus «man» and «boy» versus «girl». On an inital quick analysis it seems that authors of fiction are at least 4x more likely to describe women (as opposed to men) with beauty-related terms (regarding their weight, features and general attractiveness). In fact, «beautiful» is possibly the most widely used adjective for women in all of the world’s literature, which is quite in line with the general unidimensional representation of women in many other media forms. If anyone wants to do further research into this, let me know and I can give you a lot more data (for example, there are about 25000 different entries for «woman» — too many to show here).
The blueness of the results represents their relative frequency. You can hover over an item for a second and the frequency score should pop up. The «uniqueness» sorting is default, and thanks to my Complicated Algorithm™, it orders them by the adjectives’ uniqueness to that particular noun relative to other nouns (it’s actually pretty simple). As you’d expect, you can click the «Sort By Usage Frequency» button to adjectives by their usage frequency for that noun.
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Adjectives are words that show degrees of intensity or feeling. The mood of any movie or narrative determines how the audience will feel about it.
When trying to establish the right mood and convey your emotions in words, adjectives for mood are absolutely vital! They capture the true essence of the setting and highlight the key details of any environment, ambiance, or sentiment.
This article covers some effective words to use when describing the mood in your writing.
What Is Mood?
The mood of a piece of writing can be summed up as its overall tone or emotional makeup. Simply put, it refers to the range of emotions it arouses in the reader.
The environment, the visuals, the author’s word choice, and the tone can all affect the mood of a piece of writing. For example, a story that begins with “It was a bright and sunny day” is likely to have a happy, energetic, and cheerful mood.
Why Is Mood Important?
The mood is the emotional atmosphere created by the author’s language choices in a piece of writing. Pay close attention to how the author portrays the circumstances, the environment, and how a character responds to the events.
Writers employ imagery or sensory details to clearly describe the location for readers to visualize the place in their thoughts. Additionally, they use figurative language like personification, metaphors, and similes to help the reader understand the tone of the narrative.
Mood refers to the feeling a writer tries to evoke in the readers. Emotions could be both positive and negative based on the circumstance. The following is a list of adjectives that express feelings and mood.
Descriptive Words for Positive Mood
A positive mood is a sense of pleasure or a feeling of enthusiasm. Common examples of strong positive moods might include excitement or a rush of adrenaline. It could also be a feeling of peace and calm.
Here are some positive adjectives for mood:
- Happy, cheerful, joyful, pleased
- Exuberant, euphoric, merry
- Thrilled, excited, pumped
- Optimistic, hopeful, satisfied, fulfilled
- Relieved, peaceful, calm, content
- Loving, warm, tender, lighthearted, playful
Descriptive Words for Negative Mood
Negative mood can be a broad concept, including feeling negative thoughts, anxiety, depression, or violent thoughts. We have compiled words that are often talked about when someone is down, feels bad, or experiences a sense of negative energy.
Here are some negative adjectives for mood:
- Cold, uncaring, indifferent, aloof
- Anxious, apprehensive, worried, unsettled
- Hopeless, pessimistic, lonely, isolated
- Bored, weary, disenchanted
- Confused, perplexed, bewildered
- Brutal, hostile, cruel, violent,
- Scary, frightening, sinister, ominous
- Evil, insidious, malicious, malevolent
Conclusion
Mood is an important psychological state of mind. It is essential to reflect the mood in writing to trigger an emotional response in the audience.
The emotions may be limited to happiness, sadness, anger, fear, disgust, or surprise, but there’s always a varied intensity. Adjectives can be used to vividly explain how you feel in a certain situation to convey your emotions better.
This article discusses why moods are important and lists some effective words that describe positive and negative moods.
Contents
- 1 English
- 1.1 Noun
- 1.2 Notes
- 1.3 Synonyms
- 1.3.1 Antonyms
- 1.4 Derived terms
- 1.5 Noun
- 1.6 Synonyms
- 1.6.1 Hyponyms
- 1.7 Derived terms
- 1.8 Adjectives for Mood
- 1.9 Verbs for Mood
- 1.10 Thesaurus
- 1.11 Pronunciation
- 1.12 Etymology 1
- 1.13 Etymology 2
- 2 Translations
- 2.1 Noun
- 2.2 See also
- 2.3 Noun
- 2.4 See also
- 2.5 Anagrams
- 3 Estonian
- 3.1 Noun
English
Noun
Mood (plural Moods)
- mental or emotional state, composure
- I’m in a sad mood since I dumped my lover.
- good mood
- bad mood
- He’s in a mood with me today.
- Disposition to do something
- I’m not in the mood for running today.
Notes
- Adjectives often used with «mood»: good, bad.
Synonyms
- (mental or emotional state): composure, humor/humour, spirits, temperament
- (bad mood): huff (informal), pet, temper
- (disposition to do something): frame of mind
Antonyms
- (bad mood): good humour, good mood, good spirits
Derived terms
- in the mood
- mood music
- mood swing
- moody
Noun
Mood (plural Moods)
- (grammar) A verb form that depends on how its containing clause relates to the speaker’s or writer’s wish, intent, or assertion about reality
- The most common mood in English is the indicative.
Synonyms
- grammatical mood
Hyponyms
- See also Thesaurus:grammatical mood
Derived terms
- indicative mood
- declarative mood
- subjunctive mood
- imperative mood
Adjectives for Mood
similar; changing; characteristic; grateful; unwavering; rarest; ungentle; furtive; discontented; beguiling; half-dreaming; selfless; mysterious; exquisite; guileful; musing; uncertain; affectionable; wrathful; fantastic; willful; dominant; intemperate; adventurous; morbid; exuberant; genial; articulate; irregular; parleying; silent; ironic lifelong; rebellious; imperious; bewildered genial; chaffing; comfortable; freakish reminiscent; impassioned; subjective; absonant; pensive; unimagined; enchanted sprightly; sullen; impetuous; rebel; ex. tinguished; mirthful; penitential; disagree able; wrought-up; thoughtful; receptive habitual; depressed; philosophic; merry sentimental; misprized; fear-stricken; ro mantic; sanguine; pliant; dreamy; exacting concurrent; raging; beneficial; rapid; garrulous; favorable; variable; placid; wayward; respectful; contemplative; stern; sarcastic; working; expectant; flippant; steadfast; affable; mournful; despondent; indifferent; submissive; idea-less; senseless; frantic; shallow; evanescent; presageful;
central; morbid; gruesome; demagogic; indispensable; humane; hysterical; inquisitorial; capricious; alien; jealous; melancholy; habitual; impious; reflective; facetious; chastened; philosophic; anti-radical; religious; docile; hasty; loitering; artificial; successive (pi); dreaded; ascetic; intense; uneven; kindly; changeful; icy; mandatory; shuddering; springtime; berserk; conciliatory; permissive; shifting; minor; angelic; unfavorable.
Verbs for Mood
combat—; communicate—; crystallize—; de¬fer to—; depict—; dispel—; fathom—; fix—; govern by—; induce—; interpret—; jolt out of—; kindle—; lighten—; overstrain—; rage in—; recall—; reflect—; shock out of —; soothe—; submit to—; succumb to—; sustain—; temper—; voice—; wrap in—; yield to—; —presages; —prevails; —strikes; —vanishes.
Thesaurus
Aristotelian sorites, Goclenian sorites, action, affection, air, anagnorisis, angle, architectonics, architecture, argument, atmosphere, attitude, aura, background, catastrophe, categorical syllogism, character, characterization, color, complication, conditional, continuity, contrivance, cue, denouement, design, development, device, dilemma, disposition, eager, emotion, enthymeme, episode, fable, falling action, feel, feeling, figure, frame, frame of mind, gimmick, heart, humor, imperative, in the mood, incident, inclination, inclined, indicative, individuality, jussive, keen, line, local color, mind, minded, mode, modus tollens, morale, motif, movement, mythos, nature, note, obligative, optative, paralogism, peripeteia, permissive, personality, plan, plot, potential, prosyllogism, pseudosyllogism, ready, recognition, response, rising action, rule, rule of deduction, scheme, secondary plot, semblance, sense, slant, sorites, soul, spirit, spirits, state of mind, story, strain, structure, subject, subjunctive, subplot, switch, syllogism, sympathetic, temper, temperament, thematic development, theme, timbre, tone, topic, twist, vein, well-disposed, willing
Pronunciation
- IPA: /muːd/
- enPR: mo͞od
- Rhymes: -uːd
Etymology 1
From Old English mōd.
Etymology 2
Alteration of mode
Translations
Noun
mental state
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bad mood
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See also
- ambiance, ambience
- atmosphere
Noun
in grammar
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See also
- aspect
- tense
Anagrams
- doom, Doom
Estonian
Noun
Mood
- fashion