Mood Words

Corinne T. (United States of America)
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  1. mood
    a characteristic state of feeling
  2. timorous
    shy and fearful by nature
  3. felicitousness
    pleasing and appropriate manner or style
  4. nostalgic
    unhappy about being away and longing for familiar things
  5. dysphoric
    generalized feeling of distress
  6. euphoric
    characterized by a feeling of well-being or elation
  7. glum
    moody and sorrowful
  8. chapfallen
    brought low in spirit
  9. rebarbative
    serving or tending to repel
  10. repellant
    serving or tending to repel
  11. skanky
    highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust
  12. amort
    utterly cast down
  13. lamentable
    bad; unfortunate
  14. tragicomic
    of or relating to or characteristic of tragicomedy
  15. ruminative
    deeply or seriously thoughtful
  16. pondering
    deeply or seriously thoughtful
  17. doleful
    filled with or evoking sadness
  18. wistful
    showing pensive sadness
  19. rhapsodic
    feeling great rapture or delight
  20. elation
    a feeling of joy and pride
  21. intoxicated
    stupefied or excited by a chemical substance
  22. titillated
    feeling mild pleasurable excitement
  23. agog
    highly excited
  24. recalcitrant
    stubbornly resistant to authority or control
  25. refractory
    stubbornly resistant to authority or control
  26. disobliging
    intentionally unaccommodating
  27. synergistic
    working together for an enhanced effect
  28. conciliatory
    making or willing to make concessions
  29. antipathetical
    characterized by antagonism or antipathy
  30. beatific
    resembling or befitting an angel or saint
  31. eleemosynary
    generous in assistance to the poor
  32. beneficent
    doing or producing good
  33. maleficent
    harmful or evil in intent or effect
  34. baleful
    threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
  35. minacious
    threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
  36. ominous
    threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
  37. auspicious
    indicating favorable circumstances and good luck
  38. propitious
    presenting favorable circumstances
  39. redemptory
    of or relating to or resulting in redemption
  40. urbane
    showing a high degree of refinement
  41. lustrous
    reflecting light
  42. speculative
    not based on fact or investigation
  43. ambivalent
    uncertain or unable to decide about what course to follow
  44. polysemantic
    of words; having many meanings
  45. enigmatical
    not clear to the understanding
  46. suspicious
    openly distrustful and unwilling to confide
  47. credulous
    showing a lack of judgment or experience
  48. atrabilious
    irritable as if suffering from indigestion
  49. misogynous
    hating women in particular
  50. splenetic
    of or relating to the spleen
  51. peckish
    somewhat hungry
  52. saturnine
    bitter or scornful
  53. dour
    showing a brooding ill humor
  54. pertinacious
    stubbornly unyielding
  55. curmudgeonly
    brusque, surly, and forbidding
  56. huffish
    sullen or moody
  57. amenable
    disposed or willing to comply
  58. volitional
    with deliberate intention
  59. acquiescent
    willing to carry out the orders or wishes of another
  60. convivial
    occupied with or fond of the pleasures of good company
  61. dysphemistic
    substituting a harsher or distasteful term for a mild one
  62. ignoble
    dishonorable in character or purpose
  63. malefic
    having or exerting a malignant influence
  64. pusillanimous
    lacking in courage, strength, and resolution
Created on Sat Jan 10 15:43:40 EST 2009

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