About The Word Mope

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Mope

Mope Meaning & Definition
Mope Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Mope?

[n] someone who wastes time
[v] be apathetic, gloomy, or dazed
[v] move around slowly and aimlessly

Synonyms | Synonyms for Mope: dallier | dillydallier | lounger | moon about | moon around | mope around

Related Terms | Find terms related to Mope: ache | agonize | amble | bitch | bleed | brood | brood over | brooder | clock watcher | dallier | dawdle | dawdler | depressive | despond | diddler | dillydallier | dolittle | do-nothing | doodler | drift | faineant | fret | gentleman of leisure | gloomy Gus | goldbrick | goldbricker | goof-off | grieve | grouch | grump | idler | laggard | linger | lingerer | loafer | loiterer | loller | lotus-eater | lounger | lubber | melancholiac | melancholic | moper | mosey | mourn | muck | pine | pine away | potterer | pout | putterer | slouch | sloucher | slug | sluggard | sorrow | sourpuss | stick-in-the-mud | stroll | sulk | take on | time killer | time waster | trifler | waiter on Providence

See Also | be | bum | do-nothing | idler | layabout | loafer | move

Mope In Webster's Dictionary

\Mope\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Moped}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Moping}.] [Cf. D. moppen to pout, Prov. G. muffen to sulk.] To be dull and spiritless. ``Moping melancholy.'' --Milton. A sickly part of one true sense Could not so mope. --Shak.
\Mope\, v. t. To make spiritless and stupid. [Obs.]
\Mope\, n. A dull, spiritless person. --Burton.

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