mood-board

verb

To create a mood board of something.

Meanings

verbmood-board (third-person singular simple present mood-boards, present participle mood-boarding, simple past and past participle mood-boarded)

present singular third person mood-boards · participle present mood-boarding · participle past mood-boarded · past mood-boarded · alternative moodboard

  1. ambitransitiveTo create a mood board of something.

    I think of all the versions of home I've mood-boarded over the years, and this is somehow my favorite.

    2021, Mary H.K. Choi, Yolk, New York, NY: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, →ISBN, page 369
    2 more examples

    “I’ve dedicated every day of my waking life [to it] – and also I dream about this. I moodboarded what it was meant to feel like, sound like, look like – and to see it come to life and then come to an end is very bittersweet,” she explained.

    2021 June 8, Alex Gallagher, “Tkay Maidza shares lush single ‘Cashmere’, officially announces new EP”, in NME

    Gonna become a vigilante. […] No, I'm gonna assemble a team of vigilantes. Oh, Carrie. This is my origin story! Quick, take a picture! No, no, there's no time. I've got so much mood-boarding to do.

    2023 January 25, Emma Moran, “Have Nots”, in Toby MacDonald, director, Extraordinary, season 1, episode 1, spoken by Kash (Bilal Hasna), via Disney+
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APA

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Chicago

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