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in the mood

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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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mood play

  1. : a conscious state of mind or predominant emotion : feeling

  2. : a fit of anger : rage

  3. : a prevailing attitude

  1. : the form of a syllogism as determined by the quantity and quality of its constituent propositions

  2. : 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)

  3. : mode

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