DIMENSIONS: FORM / Guide
C O N S I D E R A T I O N S
Grammatical categories to indicate attitude - usually inflected
Indicative, subjunctive, optative, and imperative moods [language]
Consider influence of mode
Humor
Temperament
Disposition
Emotional Response
State
Outlook
C O N S I D E R :
mind, spirit, courage, attitude--usually inflected
emotional state at a particular moment
emotional outlook at a particular moment
response to experience at a particular time
disposition
temper
humor
inclination in dealing with experience. . . .
Attitude such as may be related to:
certainty or uncertainty
wish or command
emphasis or hesitancy
R E F E R E N C E S
Mood [ME; OE mõd mind, spirit, courage; c. G. Mut. Goth mõths courage, Icel mõthr anger] 1. a person's emotional state or outlook at a particular moment. 2. a person's disposition in dealing with others at a particular moment. 3. an emotional response or attitude toward something seen, heard, or otherwise experienced. 4. Moods, fits of emotions, esp. of sullenness or gloom.
-Syn. temper, humor, disposition, inclination.
2 Mood 1. Gram. a set of categories for a verb, used chiefly to indicate the attitude of a speaker toward what he is saying, as certainty or uncertainty, wish or command, emphasis or hesitancy, and usually inflected or involving the use of auxilliary words, as can, may, might: the Latin indicative mood. 2. Logic. any of the various forms of valid syllogisms. Also called mode. [special use of mood by influence of mode]
[Urdang, Laurence, ed. Random House Dictionary of The English Language. New York: Random House, 1968.]
Thesaurus:
Mood, mode; indicative, subjunctive, imperative; conditional, potential, obligative, permissive.
Roget's International Thesaurus, Third Edition. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1962.]
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