mindmap root((情绪)) mood the most general term, imputes pervasiveness and compelling quality to the principal emotion and may apply not only to the frame of mind but to its expression: the melancholy ~ of the poem. humor implies a mood that is imposed on one by one's special temperament or one's physical or mental conditions at the moment: in ill ~ and out of sorts through fatigue. temper applies to a mood that is dominated by a single strong emotion, often that of anger: gave vent to his bad ~ in a series of angry yowls. vein suggests a transitory mood or humor usually without any profound temperamental or physical basis: spoke in the same humorous ~.