Mope
[məʊp] or [mop]
Definition
(verb.) be apathetic, gloomy, or dazed.
(verb.) move around slowly and aimlessly.
Edited by Emily--From WordNet
Definition
(v. i.) To be dull and spiritless.
(v. t.) To make spiritless and stupid.
(n.) A dull, spiritless person.
Checker: Willa
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. [1]. Be sad, be gloomy, be dejected, look downcast, look blue, wear a long lace, laugh on the wrong side of the mouth.[2]. Be dull, be listless, be inattentive, be stupid, take no interest in any thing.
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Definition
v.i. to be silent and dispirited: to be dull or stupid.—v.t. to make spiritless.—n. a listless person a drone—also Mop′us.—adv. Mop′ingly.—adj. Mop′ish dull: spiritless.—adv. Mop′ishly in a mopish manner.—n. Mop′ishness.
Typist: Louis
Examples
- I am hurt that my daughter, seated in the--hum--lap of fortune, should mope and retire and proclaim herself unequal to her destiny. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Man, I cried, it will profit you nothing to mope thus. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Mrs. Gummidge, no longer moping in her especial corner, was busy preparing breakfast. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Why do you sit moping there, Annie? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- We were moping along down through this dreadful place, every man in the rear. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I say, David, to the young this is a world for action, and not for moping and droning in. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- She only sat in her room like a moping, dishevelled hawk, motionless, mindless. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The General and I were moping together tete-a-tete. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Why don't you come to us of an evening, instead of moping at home with that Captain Dobbin? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- No wonder it is moped, poor darling! Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- He moped after her departure from Holdernesse Hall, and it was for this reason that the Duke desired to send him to my establishment. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- I sometimes think I shall be moped wi' sorrow even in the City of God, if father is not there. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- He knew that he idled and moped. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- I never moped: but I can see that Casaubon does, you know. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- She mopes about by herself, and don't mix in with the people. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- She's got most of the symptoms--is twittery and cross, doesn't eat, lies awake, and mopes in corners. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- But a man mopes, you know. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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