Mood Words

Karen H. (United States of America)
Can you put into words the "Many Moods of You?" Step up to the Mood Plate, and give it a swing! You might just re-define yourself, or that "special someone" that has defied description thus far!
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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. down in the mouth
    filled with melancholy and despondency
  14. lamentable
    bad; unfortunate
  15. tragicomic
    of or relating to or characteristic of tragicomedy
  16. ruminative
    deeply or seriously thoughtful
  17. pondering
    deeply or seriously thoughtful
  18. doleful
    filled with or evoking sadness
  19. wistful
    showing pensive sadness
  20. rhapsodic
    feeling great rapture or delight
  21. elation
    a feeling of joy and pride
  22. intoxicated
    stupefied or excited by a chemical substance
  23. titillated
    feeling mild pleasurable excitement
  24. agog
    highly excited
  25. recalcitrant
    stubbornly resistant to authority or control
  26. refractory
    stubbornly resistant to authority or control
  27. disobliging
    intentionally unaccommodating
  28. synergistic
    working together for an enhanced effect
  29. conciliatory
    making or willing to make concessions
  30. antipathetical
    characterized by antagonism or antipathy
  31. beatific
    resembling or befitting an angel or saint
  32. eleemosynary
    generous in assistance to the poor
  33. beneficent
    doing or producing good
  34. maleficent
    harmful or evil in intent or effect
  35. baleful
    threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
  36. minacious
    threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
  37. ominous
    threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
  38. auspicious
    indicating favorable circumstances and good luck
  39. propitious
    presenting favorable circumstances
  40. redemptory
    of or relating to or resulting in redemption
  41. urbane
    showing a high degree of refinement
  42. lustrous
    reflecting light
  43. speculative
    not based on fact or investigation
  44. ambivalent
    uncertain or unable to decide about what course to follow
  45. polysemantic
    of words; having many meanings
  46. enigmatical
    not clear to the understanding
  47. suspicious
    openly distrustful and unwilling to confide
  48. queer
    beyond or deviating from the usual or expected
  49. credulous
    showing a lack of judgment or experience
  50. atrabilious
    irritable as if suffering from indigestion
  51. misogynous
    hating women in particular
  52. splenetic
    of or relating to the spleen
  53. peckish
    somewhat hungry
  54. saturnine
    bitter or scornful
  55. dour
    showing a brooding ill humor
  56. pertinacious
    stubbornly unyielding
  57. curmudgeonly
    brusque, surly, and forbidding
  58. huffish
    sullen or moody
  59. amenable
    disposed or willing to comply
  60. volitional
    with deliberate intention
  61. acquiescent
    willing to carry out the orders or wishes of another
  62. convivial
    occupied with or fond of the pleasures of good company
  63. dysphemistic
    substituting a harsher or distasteful term for a mild one
  64. ignoble
    dishonorable in character or purpose
  65. malefic
    having or exerting a malignant influence
  66. pusillanimous
    lacking in courage, strength, and resolution
Created on Fri Apr 20 22:56:20 EDT 2007

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