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moody
adjective as in crabby, temperamental
Strong matches
Weak matches
- angry
- cantankerous
- capricious
- changeable
- crabbed
- crestfallen
- dismal
- doleful
- dour
- down in the dumps
- down in the mouth
- erratic
- fickle
- fitful
- flighty
- frowning
- gloomy
- glum
- huffy
- ill-humored
- ill-tempered
- impulsive
- in a huff
- in the doldrums
- introspective
- irascible
- irritable
- lugubrious
- mercurial
- miserable
- moping
- morose
- offended
- out of sorts
- pensive
- petulant
- piqued
- sad
- saturnine
- short-tempered
- splenetic
- sullen
- testy
- touchy
Example Sentences
Berry uses a blend of instruments — including saxophones, synthesizers and sound bowls — to craft the otherworldly, moody score.
An exterior staircase leads down to a dramatic interior with a circular bar, soaring ceilings, and moody lighting.
The single dropped on 17 October 2005 and the cover featured a moody teenage supermarket cashier wearing a tabard.
Other tracks include “Just a Little,” strutting to a Rolling Stones-ish riff, and the bluesy, moody “Go on Down to Mobile,” with a brief but searing guitar solo that is recognizably his.
Pearly clouds gather over the ocean in the distance, a view that evokes the moody landscapes of Virginia Woolf’s novels.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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