Mood"y (?), a. [Compar. Moodier (?); superl. Moodiest.] [AS. modig 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.
© Webster 1913.