# mood

> English word · Noun · IPA /muːd/ · frequency rank #3,378

## Definitions
1. A mental or emotional state, composure.
2. Emotional character (of a work of music, literature, or other art).
3. A sullen, gloomy or angry mental state; a bad mood.
4. A disposition to do something, a state of mind receptive or disposed to do something.
5. A prevalent atmosphere, attitude, or feeling.
6. A familiar, relatable feeling, experience, or thing.

## Etymology
From Middle English mood, mode, mod, from Old English mōd (“mind,” in poetry also “heart, spirit, courage”), from Proto-West Germanic *mōd, from Proto-Germanic *mōdaz (“sense, courage, zeal, anger”), from Proto-Indo-European *moh₁-, *meh₁- (“endeavour, will, temper”).
Cognates
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Moud (“courage”), West Frisian moed (“courage; mind; spirit; will; intention”), Dutch moed (“bravery, courage; mood”), German Mut, Muth (“bravery, courage; mood”), German Low German Mood (“boldness, bravery, courage”), Luxembourgish Mutt (“courage”), Yiddish מוט (mut, “bravery, courage”), Danish and Swedish mod (“courage”), Faroese and Icelandic móður (“anger, wrath; fierce mood”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk mot (“courage”), Gothic 𐌼𐍉𐌸𐍃 (mōþs, “mood; anger”), Vandalic *muths (“mind”); also Latin mōs (“behavior, conduct, manner; inclination, temperament; humour, will”), Bulgarian сме́я (sméja, “to dare”), Czech smět (“to be allowed; may”), Macedonian сме́е (smée, “to be allowed”), Polish śmieć (“dare”), Russian сметь (smetʹ, “to dare”), Serbo-Croatian сме̏ти, смје̏ти, smȅti, smjȅti (“to dare, venture”), Slovak smieť (“to be allowed; may”), Slovene smeti (“to be allowed; may”) Ukrainian смі́ти (smíty, “to dare”).

## Easily confused with
- **MUD** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mood-vs-mud)
- **MoS** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mood-vs-mos)
- **mop** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mood-vs-mop)
- **MOR** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mood-vs-mor)
- **mou** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mood-vs-mou)
- **mot** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mood-vs-mot)
- **mow** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mood-vs-mow)
- **Moz** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mood-vs-moz)
- **more** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mood-vs-more)
- **most** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mood-vs-most)
- **move** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mood-vs-move)
- **moon** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mood-vs-moon)
- **moss** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mood-vs-moss)
- **moth** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mood-vs-moth)
- **moto** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mood-vs-moto)
- **moor** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mood-vs-moor)
- **moot** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mood-vs-moot)
- **Mori** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mood-vs-mori)
- **mora** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mood-vs-mora)
- **mort** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mood-vs-mort)

## Common misspellings (4)
`mmood`, `modo`, `moodd`, `omod`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/mood