'Mope' definitions:
Definition of 'mope'
(from WordNet)
noun
verb
Move around slowly and aimlessly [syn: mope, mope around]
verb
Be apathetic, gloomy, or dazed [syn: mope, moon around, moon about]
Definition of 'Mope'
From: GCIDE
- Mope \Mope\, v. t. To make spiritless and stupid. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Mope'
From: GCIDE
- Mope \Mope\, n. A dull, spiritless person. --Burton. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Mope'
From: GCIDE
- Mope \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; to spend time doing little; as, to mope around the house. "Moping melancholy." --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- A sickly part of one true sense Could not so mope. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'mope'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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