Meaning of MOPE
| Pronunciation: | | mowp
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- [n] someone who wastes time
- [v] be apathetic, gloomy, or dazed
- [v] move around slowly and aimlessly
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| | Synonyms: | | dallier, dillydallier, lounger, moon about, moon around, mope around |
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| | See Also: | | be, bum, do-nothing, idler, layabout, loafer, move | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\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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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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