moody
1. showing a brooding ill humor - a dark scowl - the proverbially dour New England Puritan - a glum, hopeless shrug - he sat in moody silence - a morose and unsociable manner - "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven - a sour temper - a sullen crowd • Syn: dark, dour, glowering, glum, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen • Similar to: ill-natured • Derivationally related forms: sullenness (for: sullen), sourness (for: sour), moroseness (for: morose), moodiness, glumness (for: glum) 2. subject to sharply varying moods - a temperamental opera singer • Syn: temperamental • Similar to: emotional • Derivationally related forms: temperament (for: temperamental), mood, moodiness
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