Mope

• POS: Noun, Verb (intransitive)

CIDE DICTIONARY

Mope, v. i. [Cf. D. moppen to pout, Prov. G. muffen to sulk.].

 To be dull and spiritless; to spend time doing little; as, to mope around the house.  Milton.  [1913 Webster]
"A sickly part of one true sense
Could not so mope."  [1913 Webster]

Mope, v. t. 

 To make spiritless and stupid.  [1913 Webster]

Mope, n. 

 A dull, spiritless person.  Burton.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Mope, v. & n.
--v.intr. be gloomily depressed or listless; behave sulkily.
--n.
1 a person who mopes.
2 (the mopes) low spirits.

Derivative

moper n. mopy adj. (mopier, mopiest). mopily adv. mopiness n.

Etymology

16th c.: prob. rel. to mope, mopp(e) fool

THESAURUS

Mope

ache, agonize, amble, bitch, bleed, brood, brood over, brooder, clock watcher, dallier, dawdle, dawdler, depressive, despond, diddler, dillydallier, do-nothing, dolittle, 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

ROGET THESAURUS

Mope

Dejection

N dejection, dejectedness, depression, prosternation, lowness of spirits, depression of spirits, weight on the spirits, oppression on the spirits, damp on the spirits, low spirits, bad spirits, drooping spirits, depressed spirits, heart sinking, heaviness of heart, failure of heart, heaviness, infestivity, gloom, weariness, taedium vitae, disgust of life, mal du pays, anhedonia, melancholy, sadness, il penseroso, melancholia, dismals, blues, lachrymals, mumps, dumps, blue devils, doldrums, vapors, megrims, spleen, horrors, hypochondriasis, pessimism, la maladie sans maladie, despondency, slough of Despond, disconsolateness, hope deferred, blank despondency, voiceless woe, prostration of soul, broken heart, despair, cave of despair, cave of Trophonius demureness, gravity, solemnity, long face, grave face, hypochondriac, seek sorrow, self-tormentor, heautontimorumenos, malade imaginaire, medecin tant pis, croaker, pessimist, mope, mopus, affliction, sorry sight, memento mori, damper, wet blanket, Job's comforter, cheerless, joyless, spiritless, uncheerful, uncheery, unlively, unhappy, melancholy, dismal, somber, dark, gloomy, triste, clouded, murky, lowering, frowning, lugubrious, funereal, mournful, lamentable, dreadful, dreary, flat, dull, dull as a beetle, dull as ditchwater, depressing, melancholy as a gib cat, oppressed with melancholy, a prey to melancholy, downcast, downhearted, down in the mouth, down in one's luck, heavy-hearted, in the dumps, down in the dumps, in the suds, in the sulks, in the doldrums, in doleful dumps, in bad humor, sullen, mumpish, dumpish, mopish, moping, moody, glum, sulky, out of sorts, out of humor, out of heart, out of spirits, ill at ease, low spirited, in low spirits, a cup too low, weary, discouraged, disheartened, desponding, chapfallen, chopfallen, jaw fallen, crest fallen, sad, pensive, penseroso, tristful, dolesome, doleful, woebegone, lacrymose, lachrymose, in tears, melancholic, hypped, hypochondriacal, bilious, jaundiced, atrabilious, saturnine, splenetic, lackadaisical, serious, sedate, staid, stayed, grave as a judge, grave as an undertaker, grave as a mustard pot, sober, sober as a judge, solemn, demure, grim, grim-faced, grim-visaged, rueful, wan, long-faced, disconsolate, unconsolable, inconsolable, forlorn, comfortless, desolate, desole, sick at heart, soul sick, heart sick, au desespoir, in despair, lost, overcome, broken down, borne down, bowed down, heartstricken, cut up, dashed, sunk, unnerved, unmanned, down fallen, downtrodden, broken-hearted, careworn, with a long face, with tears in one's eyes, sadly, the countenance falling, the heart failing, the heart sinking within one, a plague of sighing and grief, thick-ey'd musing and curs'd melancholy, the sickening pang of hope deferred.

VB be dejected, grieve, mourn, take on, give way, lose heart, despond, droop, sink, lower, look downcast, frown, pout, hang down the head, pull a long face, make a long face, laugh on the wrong side of the mouth, grin a ghastly smile, look blue, look like a drowned man, lay to heart, take to heart, mope, brood over, fret, sulk, pine, pine away, yearn, repine, despair, refrain from laughter, keep one's countenance, be grave, look grave, repress a smile, depress, discourage, dishearten, dispirit, damp, dull, deject, lower, sink, dash, knock down, unman, prostrate, break one's heart, frown upon, cast a gloom, cast a shade on, sadden, damp one's hopes, dash one's hopes, wither one's hopes, weigh on the mind, lie heavy on the mind, prey on the mind, weigh on the spirits, lie heavy on the spirits, prey on the spirits, damp the spirits, depress the spirits.