mood

noun

1 WAY YOU FEEL (C) the way you feel at a particular time: His moods change very quickly - one moment he's cheerful and the next he's sunk in despair. | It takes a couple of days to get into the holiday mood. | be in a good mood/bad mood etc (=be happy, annoyed, angry etc): You're in a good mood this morning! | The kids were in a really silly mood after the party. | be in a foul/filthy mood (=be very angry or upset): Don't talk to Jean; she's in a filthy mood! | put sb in a good/bad mood (=make them feel happy or annoyed): I'd been stuck in the traffic for hours, which put me in a really bad mood.

2 be in a mood to feel unhappy or angry: She's been in a real mood all day. | be in one of your/his moods (=used when someone often gets in a bad mood)

3 be in no mood for sth/to do sth to not want to do something, or be determined not to do something: The boss is in no mood for compromise on this point. | I was in no mood to argue any more.

4 be/feel in the mood (for sth/to do sth) to want to do something or feel that you would enjoy doing something: She was in the mood for a romantic walk in the woods. | I don't want to talk about it now. I'm not in the mood.

5 WAY PEOPLE FEEL (singular) the way a group of people feels about something or about life in general

(+ of): The president had misjudged the mood of the people on this issue. | The novel captures the mood of postwar France.

6 GRAMMAR (C) technical one of the sets of verb forms in grammar such as the indicative (=expressing a fact or action), the imperative (=expressing a command) or the subjunctive (=expressing a doubt or wish)