[syn: mope, moon around, moon about]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Mope \Mope\, v. t.
To make spiritless and stupid. [Obs.]
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Mope \Mope\, n.
A dull, spiritless person. --Burton.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.
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A sickly part of one true sense
Could not so mope. --Shak.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
mope
n 1: someone who wastes time [syn: dallier, dillydallier,
dilly-dallier, mope, lounger]
v 1: move around slowly and aimlessly [syn: mope, mope
around]
2: be apathetic, gloomy, or dazed [syn: mope, moon around,
moon about]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
65 Moby Thesaurus words for "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