Moody \Mood"y\, a. [Compar. Moodier; superl. Moodiest.]

[AS. m[=o]dig courageous.]

1. Subject to varying moods, especially to states of mind which are unamiable or depressed.

2. Hence: Out of humor; peevish; angry; fretful; also, abstracted and pensive; sad; gloomy; melancholy. ``Every peevish, moody malcontent.'' --Rowe.

Arouse thee from thy moody dream! --Sir W. Scott.

Syn: Gloomy; pensive; sad; fretful; capricious.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)