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1. Showing a brooding ill humour
   "he sat in moody silence";
   - dark, dour, glowering, glum, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen
    
2. Subject to sharply varying moods
   "a moody opera singer";
   - temperamental

1. United States tennis player who dominated women's tennis in the 1920s and 1930s (1905-1998)
   - Helen Wills Moody, Helen Wills, Helen Newington Wills
    
2. United States evangelist (1837-1899)
   - Dwight L. Moody, Dwight Lyman Moody

Derived forms: moodier, moodiest

See also: emotional, ill-natured

Type of: evangelist, gospeler [US], gospeller, revivalist, tennis player

Encyclopedia: Moody, Missouri