mope
/məʊp/US/moʊp/
mope verb: to carry oneself in a depressed, lackadaisical manner; to give oneself up to low spirits; to pout, sulk.
Verb
mope (third-person singular simple present mopes, present participle moping, simple past and past participle moped)
- To carry oneself in a depressed, lackadaisical manner; to give oneself up to low spirits; to pout, sulk.
- To make spiritless and stupid.
Noun
mope (plural mopes)
- The act of moping
- When she gets upset, she has a little mope, and then gets over it.
- A dull, spiritless person.
- putting gulleries on some or other till they have made by their humouring or gulling ex stulto insanum, a mope or a noddy1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC
- Synonyms:
- mopus
- A bottom feeder who "mopes" around a pornography studio hoping for his big break and often does bit parts in exchange for room and board and meager pay.
- 2011: LA Weekly, documenting uses dating to the 1990s
The porn industry is many things. Subtle is not one of them. So when Porn Inc. went searching for a job title for people like Stephen Hill, the choice was "mope." It's based on the off-camera life of these fringe actors, hangers-on who mope...
- 2011: LA Weekly, documenting uses dating to the 1990s
mope meaning in Urdu, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada
mope in Urdu
- دلگیر, مردہ دل, بےدلی سے کام کرنا, دلگیر رہنا
mope in Bengali
- হতাশ, বিষণ্ণ হয়ে ঘোরাঘুরি করা
mope in Malayalam
- കുണ്ഠിതഭാവമുണ്ടാകുക, മയങ്ങുക, നിരുത്സാഹമായിരിക്കുക
mope in Kannada
- ಮಂಕಾಗಿರು, ಖಿನ್ನನಾಗಿರು, ನಿರುತ್ಸಾಹದಿಂದಿರು, ಹುರುಪಿಲ್ಲದಿರು, ಅಸಮಾಧಾನದಿಂದ ವರ್ತಿಸು
More languagesFewer languages
- mope in Punjabi
- ਝੁਰਨਾ jhurnā
Synonyms of mope
Forms of mope
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | mopes |
| present participle | moping |
| past participle | moped |
| past | moped |
| Noun | |
| plural | mopes |
Origin of mope
Late Middle English (as a noun meaning "simpleton, fool"), probably related to mop (“young of an animal, moppet”). Alternatively, of North Germanic origin, related to Swedish mopa (“to sulk”), Danish måbe, themselves borrowed from Low German mopen (“to make faces, gape”), of uncertain ultimate origin, but compare Proto-West Germanic *mauwu (“protruding lip, pout”). Compare also German muffen, French moue.
Words formed from mope
Words that rhyme with mope
Questions about mope
- What does mope mean?
- Mope means to carry oneself in a depressed, lackadaisical manner; to give oneself up to low spirits; to pout, sulk.
- What is mope in Urdu?
- Mope in Urdu is دلگیر, مردہ دل, بےدلی سے کام کرنا. See Mope meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is mope?
- Mope can be a verb or a noun.
- How do you pronounce mope?
- Mope is pronounced /məʊp/ (UK).
- What is the past tense of mope?
- The past tense of mope is moped.
Words near mope in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: mope (page history and authors); mope (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); mope (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); mope (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); mope (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਝੁਰਨਾ (Punjabi) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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