Other forms: moods
Your mood is the way you feel at the moment. A good mood, a bad mood, in no mood for it.
It is temporary, which is what separates it from temperament, and it is general, which separates it from an emotion about a particular thing. The fixed phrases are worth learning whole: in a good mood, in a bad mood, in the mood for something, and mood swings. Note that a moody person is one whose mood changes often and unpleasantly. In grammar, mood is a technical term for the form of a verb — indicative, imperative, subjunctive — which is unrelated to feelings.
1nounmoodThe way somebody feels at a particular time.
“She has been in a good mood all week.”
synonyms: frame of mind, humour
2noungeneralThe general feeling of a group or a place.
“The mood in the room changed completely.”
3noungrammarIn grammar, the form of a verb showing how it is meant.
“The imperative mood is used for orders.”
Too few real examples of this word to estimate which sense is commonest.
mood is a state of feeling.
Old English mod meant mind, courage or anger — a much stronger word than the modern one. German Mut still means courage. English weakened it steadily until it meant only the passing weather of the mind, which is a considerable demotion.
Proto-Indo-European
*moh₁-
Proto-Germanic
*mōdaz — sense, courage, zeal, anger
Proto-West Germanic
*mōd
Old English
mōd
Middle English
mood
English, today
mood
Built from
From Middle English mood, mode, mod, from Old English mōd (“mind,” in poetry also “heart, spirit, courage”), from Proto-West Germanic mōd, from Proto-Germanic mōdaz (“sense, courage, zeal, anger”), from Proto-Indo-European moh₁-, meh₁- (“endeavour, will, temper”). 2 Cognate with stq Moud (“courage”), West Frisian moed (“courage; mind; spirit; will; intention”), Dutch moed (“bravery, courage; mood”), German Mut (“bravery, courage; mood”), German Low German Mood (“boldness, bravery, courage”), lb Mutt (“courage”), Yiddish מוט (“bravery, courage”), Danish and Swedish mod (“courage”), Faroese and Icelandic móður (“anger, wrath; fierce mood”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk mot (“courage”), Gothic 𐌼𐍉𐌸𐍃 (“mood; anger”), xvn muths (“mind”); also Latin mōs (“behavior, conduct, manner; inclination, temperament; humour, will”), Bulgarian сме́я (“to dare”), Czech smět (“to be allowed; may”), mk сме́е (“to be allowed”), Polish śmieć (“dare”), Russian сметь (“to dare”), Serbo-Croatian сме̏ти, смје̏ти, smȅti, smjȅti (“to dare, venture”), Slovak smieť (“to be allowed; may”), Slovene smeti (“to be allowed; may”) Ukrainian смі́ти (“to dare”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA