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. Aaron Gifford:

   The base case is Moody's downgrades the sovereign by one notch in Q2 2020 because of the need to continue to bail out Pemex as well as an erosion of savings used to meet fiscal targets.

2. Luis Gonzali:

   It's likely that next week we will see strong outflows from Pemex bonds, while I believe Moody's was benevolent with the sovereign's rating, it wasn't with Pemex's rating, which, inevitably, now enters the universe of speculative bonds.

3. Sara Gottfried:

   The number one way you know [if you have a hormone imbalance] is that you’re gaining weight because 99 percent of weight gain is hormonal, and a lot of people don’t connect the dots. They don’t realize that their problems with energy, with feeling fatigued maybe even depressed or moody is related to their hormones.

4. 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.

5. 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.