in the mood
Definition of in the mood
: feeling a desire for something or to do something I'm in the mood for sushi. I'm sorry. I'm just not in the mood to talk. “Would you like to see a movie?” “No, I'm not in the mood (to see a movie).”
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Word by Word Definitions
: a conscious state of mind or predominant emotion : feeling
: the expression of mood especially in art or literature
: a fit of anger : rage
: the form of a syllogism as determined by the quantity and quality of its constituent propositions
: distinction of form or a particular set of inflectional forms of a verb to express whether the action or state it denotes is conceived as fact or in some other manner (such as command, possibility, or wish)
: mode
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