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Mood

Manner; style; mode; logical form; musical style; manner of action or being. See Mode which is the preferable form).

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Amiability 76% connected

The quality of being amiable; amiableness; sweetness of disposition.

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Declarative 76% connected

Making declaration, proclamation, or publication; explanatory; assertive; declaratory.

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Distemper 76% connected

To temper or mix unduly; to make disproportionate; to change the due proportions of.

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Imperative 76% connected

Expressive of command; containing positive command; authoritatively or absolutely directive; commanding; authoritative; as, imperative orders.

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Indicative 76% connected

Pointing out; bringing to notice; giving intimation or knowledge of something not visible or obvious.

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Interrogative 76% connected

Denoting a question; expressed in the form of a question; as, an interrogative sentence; an interrogative pronoun.

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Optative 76% connected

Expressing desire or wish.

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Subjunctive 76% connected

Subjoined or added to something before said or written.

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Sulk 76% connected

A furrow.

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Sulkiness 76% connected

The quality or state of being sulky; sullenness; moroseness; as, sulkiness of disposition.

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Condition 76% connected

Mode or state of being; state or situation with regard to external circumstances or influences, or to physical or mental integrity, health, strength,…

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Feeling 76% connected

of Feel

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Status 76% connected

State; condition; position of affairs.

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Humour 74% connected

the quality of being funny; "I fail to see the humor in it"

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Humour 74% connected

the quality of being funny; "I fail to see the humor in it"

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Modal 74% connected

Of or pertaining to a mode or mood; consisting in mode or form only; relating to form; having the form without the essence or reality.

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Modal 74% connected

Of or pertaining to a mode or mood; consisting in mode or form only; relating to form; having the form without the essence or reality.

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Synonym 6

Climate 92% connected

One of thirty regions or zones, parallel to the equator, into which the surface of the earth from the equator to the pole was divided, according to t…

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Humor 92% connected

Moisture, especially, the moisture or fluid of animal bodies, as the chyle, lymph, etc.; as, the humors of the eye, etc.

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Humour 92% connected

the quality of being funny; "I fail to see the humor in it"

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Modality 92% connected

The quality or state of being modal.

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Mode 92% connected

Manner of doing or being; method; form; fashion; custom; way; style; as, the mode of speaking; the mode of dressing.

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Temper 92% connected

To mingle in due proportion; to prepare by combining; to modify, as by adding some new element; to qualify, as by an ingredient; hence, to soften; to…

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