be in the mood (for something/to do something)

mood | American Dictionary

mood
noun[ C ]
us/mud/

moodnoun[C] (FEELING)

the way you feel at a particular time:
She’s in a good/bad mood today.
"Do you want to go to the movies?" "No, I’m not in the mood (= not interested in that)."
art
The mood of a work of art is the emotional features of it, or the way it makes you feel.

moodnoun[C] (GRAMMAR)

grammar
the forms of verbs used to show whether the person speaking intends to express a fact, an order, or a hope:
the indicative/imperative/subjunctive mood

Examples of mood

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They are not only lively, they are romantic and dramatic and between them their moods can reflect the whole gambit of human behaviour.
Look at it this way: in some moods, or in some contexts, one might think that human beings are precious.
In bulimic syndromes, binge episodes are thought to be caused by dietary restraint and negative moods.
Negative moods were represented as 'sad and not exciting', 'it was very dismal', 'very depressing'.
Self-rated moods and hunger in relation to spontaneous eating behavior in bulimics, recovered bulimics, and normals.
Integral to the cultural landscape, aperitif advertisements and brand names were employed by novelists and film makers to conjure up contemporary scenes, personalities, and moods.
In human interactions, the face provides a dynamic, embodied representation of emotion, sharing feelings and moods from moment to moment.
Through facial conversation, an individual can enter into the subjective experience of another, sharing feelings and moods.
Alternatively, it may be evoked by contextual cues, by preceding trains of thought, by moods and emotional states or in response to current problems.
More generally, expression of marked moods and marked uses of the indicative may lack the stigmata of prototypical finites.
We need to examine the role of other moods such as anger\\hostility, confusion\\bewilderment and fatigue as well as anxiety and depression.
Moreover, mixed moods should be inflectional too, like would have been able to go (potential conditional).
Given that war moods can alter very quickly, even crude data to test a simplified version of this model would be difficult to get.
On the other side, over here with us, that appears as moods, feelings, and will.
I cannot explicate the notion of a central affective state in detail here, but moods are paradigmatically central.
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Collocations withmood

mood

These are words often used in combination with mood.

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bad mood
He also apologized to the crew for his badmood throughout filming due to the tightness of the budget and timetable.
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