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mood

 
 
/muːd/ noun

Definition

FEELING [C, U] the way someone feels at a particular time: to be in a good/bad mood What sort of mood is he in today? The public mood changed dramatically after the bombing.
be in a mood to not be friendly to other people because you are feeling angry: Ignore him - he's in a mood.
be in the mood for sth/to do sth to want to do or have something: I'm not really in the mood for shopping at the moment.
be in no mood for sth/to do sth to not want to do something with someone else, often because you are angry with them
GRAMMAR [C] in grammar, one of the different ways a sentence is being used, for example to give an order, express a fact, etc: the indicative/imperative mood
(Definition of mood noun from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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