verb (used without object)
1.
to be sunk in dejection or listless apathy; sulk; brood.
verb (used with object)
2.
to make dejected, listless, or apathetic.
noun
3.
a person who mopes or is given to moping.
4.
mopes, depressed spirits; blues.
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mope (məʊp) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —vb | |
| 1. | to be gloomy or apathetic: there's no time to mope |
| 2. | to move or act in an aimless way: he moped around the flat |
| —n | |
| 3. | a gloomy person |
| [C16: perhaps from obsolete mope fool and related to | |
| 'moper | |
| —n | |
| 'mopy | |
| —adj | |
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Word Origin & History
mope
1560s, the sound of the word perhaps somehow suggestive of low feelings (cf. Low Ger. mopen "to sulk," Du. moppen "to grumble, to grouse," Dan. maabe "to mope"). Related: Moping; mopey.
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mope definition[mop]
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Example sentences
Don't mope because of the heat-induced slow fishing during the day.
Her understandable response is to mope around the house, and for the next hour the film is as dull and depressive as its heroine.
Heartbroken souls that wallow in their sorrows and mope in perpetual gloom have got it all wrong.
Dismembered tentacles mope in the attic listening to punk music.
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