Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To be gloomy or dejected.
- v. To brood or sulk. See Synonyms at brood.
- v. To move in a leisurely or aimless manner; dawdle.
- n. A person given to gloomy or dejected moods.
- n. Low spirits; the blues. Often used with the.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To be very dull or listless; especially, to be spiritless or gloomy; yield to gloom or despondency: as commonly used, it implies a rather trivial and weak melancholy.
- To make spiritless or melancholy.
- n. A low-spirited, listless, melancholy person; a drone.
Wiktionary
- v. to carry one’s self in a depressed, lackadaisical manner; to give oneself up to low spirits; to pout
- n. A dull, spiritless person.
- n. A bottom feeder who "mopes" around a pornography studio hoping for his big break and often does bit parts in exchange for room and board and meager pay.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To be dull and spiritless; to spend time doing little.
- v. obsolete To make spiritless and stupid.
- n. A dull, spiritless person.
WordNet 3.0
- v. move around slowly and aimlessly
- v. be apathetic, gloomy, or dazed
- n. someone who wastes time
Etymologies
- Compare Danish måbe, German muffen. (Wiktionary)
- Origin unknown. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“But by this time the mope is sucking wind like he’s dying, which Chris was thinking he might very well be doing, although he’s frankly not too concerned about the mope’s health because he’s sucking wind too and his heart’s pounding and his legs are screaming We told you so!”
“Is "mope" one of those made-for-TV words for the bad guys?”
“He would just kind of mope around the station until the alarm went off.”
“But he did not "mope," as he wrote me one day, "I am too busy for that;" or, he might have said truthfully, too well sustained.”
“I don't know why I was defensive with myself for so long! mo. ped.s until I was in highschool, and my spectacularly unhip mother busted a gut laughing when I read it aloud like the past tense of "mope" and asked her what it was.”
“The blonds on Popular got all of the good lines and funny scenes and, as a result, they were more effective when they were thrust into mope-y drama sequences.”
“With knotted suede tassels hanging like a multitude of floppy ears over a snout-like toe, this is a shoe that seems to mope.”
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“Danger would mope and cry but then suddenly laugh hysterically and point out that Care's molded hair could never be brushed or styled and that he had to wear the same silly outfit for years on end.”
“Also, it leads to this very Doctor we are seeing mope about ... and to a far less satisfying conclusion ... that says, Well, life sucks but you get used to it.”
“He can't just mope about and claim that Rose and Donna are better off now that he's stranded them in pointless backwaters and get away with my sympathies.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘mope’.
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LIT - Ulysses - key words and phrases
money cowrie, bedraggle, omphalos, ineluctable, postprandial, bladderwrack, modality barnacle..., loofah, shipworm, cither, embattle, Malachi and 503 more...
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Pterodactyl's Game of Postal Abbrevia...
Here's a fun little word game that might appeal to my fellow Wordies. The object of this game is to create the longest possible word, using only the official two-letter abbreviations of U.S. states...
deny, lame, mope, demand, camp, cask, hind, decamp, canvas, scalar, mental, pronks and 75 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, M
metamerism, malady, margin, marauder, maverick, mercury, mirth, mandible, macerate, meteor, manumission, mica and 292 more...
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ulyssean
... as in "by James Joyce"
stately, plump, aloft, gurgling, untonsured, chrysostomos, jowl, parapet, jesuit, indigestion, scutter, noserag and 688 more...
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
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harrisj's Words
skeumorph, liminal, enervated, essential, moiety, motley, haphazard, bone-picker, resolute, petard, jigsaw, schism and 117 more...
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Vocabulary
paradox, aberration, laconic, lugubrious, credulous, loquacious, deprecate, pointillistic, epigone, vehement, surly, obtuse and 359 more...
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Daily Show and Colbert Musings
They put the fake in fake news, and they're still more real than the real news. Go figure!
catastrofuck, gee whiz, looting, correspondent, precisely, reprisal, numbnuts, callous, terrestrial, capper, report, sociopath and 114 more...
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Immrama
Magical Celtic Voyages
literally 'rowings about'The Voyage of Mae..., The Voyage of the..., The Voyage of Sne..., Voyage of St. Bre..., peregrinatio, The Voyage of the..., immrama, Vita Columbae, Vita Albie, Vita Fintani seu ..., peripteral, repechage and 85 more...
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Sloth
torpor, indifference, spiritlessness, phlegmatic, impassiveness, stolidity, unemotionality, quietism, unconcern, accidie, apathy, lassitude and 11 more...
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fun things
defenestrate, smorgasbord, bodacious, internecine, surfeit, ecumenical, insouciance, oscillate, scintillate, puce, castrophony, semiautomagic and 54 more...
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