as in volatile
frequently influenced by moods and especially bad moods
teenagers are often both moody and changeable
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Recent Examples of moody
For a dramatic look (especially in a dark, moody color palette like this Upper East Side family home), these sumptuous sheets can’t be beat.
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Nora Taylor, Architectural Digest, 20 Feb. 2025
In November 2023 a similarly moody early work by Modigliani sold at Sotheby’s Paris Impressionist and Modern evening sale for more than $403,000.
—Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 6 Feb. 2025
Update the traditional pattern by choosing a palette that features bright neons, deep and moody colors, or even graphic black and whites to make all who enter your home do a double take.
—Maggie Gillette, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Feb. 2025
Over the course of three years, Picasso diverged from painting convention, utilizing expressive brushwork and a now famously moody blue-green palette.
—Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 10 Feb. 2025
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Nora Taylor, Architectural Digest, 20 Feb. 2025
In November 2023 a similarly moody early work by Modigliani sold at Sotheby’s Paris Impressionist and Modern evening sale for more than $403,000.
—Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 6 Feb. 2025
Update the traditional pattern by choosing a palette that features bright neons, deep and moody colors, or even graphic black and whites to make all who enter your home do a double take.
—Maggie Gillette, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Feb. 2025
Over the course of three years, Picasso diverged from painting convention, utilizing expressive brushwork and a now famously moody blue-green palette.
—Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 10 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for moody
Adjective
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Hence, despite its extremely high valuation, the stock appears attractive but volatile, which supports our conclusion that AVGO is a tricky stock to buy.—
Trefis Team,
Forbes,
28 Feb. 2025
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Wall Street ultimately found the business too volatile and debt-heavy to get fully behind the stock.—
Dade Hayes,
Deadline,
27 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The United States under the chaotic, impulsive leadership of President Donald Trump is abandoning its longstanding alliances with fellow democracies in favor of, at best, strategic ambivalence.—
David Axe,
Forbes,
25 Feb. 2025
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These are not the actions of a responsible superpower, but rather the impulsive demands of a declining hegemon that has lost its way.—
Matt Robison,
Newsweek,
18 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Countries like Canada, Portugal, and Australia offer alternative investor visa programs with clear, consistent rules, which would be made more attractive if the U.S. appears unpredictable or politically unstable.—
Andy J. Semotiuk,
Forbes,
27 Feb. 2025
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Its secret to staying afloat in an unstable industry in the ever-evolving city of Raleigh is willingness to lean into change.—
Lucille Sherman,
Axios,
25 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Hers is the kind of face that inspires directors to tight framing — gleaming, as if smoothed from marble, and yet somehow pliant, changeful.—
Jordan Kisner Jack Davison,
New York Times,
11 Oct. 2022
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Rigorous, blustery winter; winding sleety spring; hot, moist enervating summer; changeful autumn with its dog-days; these are absolutely unknown.—
San Diego Union-Tribune,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
1 Jan. 2023
Adjective
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Cold exposure is particularly helpful for those who have irritable skin through the constriction of blood vessels, alleviating swelling and flushes.—
Lucy Notarantonio,
Newsweek,
24 Feb. 2025
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The elderly single mom, played with an irritable, bone-deep bitterness by Irish actor Fiona Shaw, has spent the past few years paralyzed by an illness no one can diagnose.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
14 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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But Velocity builds aren’t delicate collectibles or temperamental garage queens.—
Robb Report Studio,
Robb Report,
8 Mar. 2025
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What happened to Gen X? Unlike the odd couple pairing of Trump and former Vice President Mike Pence, who was added to the 2016 ticket to reach Evangelicals and traditional conservatives but was Trump's temperamental opposite, the Trump-Vance match is a MAGA mind meld.—
Zac Anderson,
USA TODAY,
8 Mar. 2025
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“Moody.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/moody. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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