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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

MOPE, v.i. [I have not found this word, unless in the D. moppen, to pout.]
To be very stupid; to be very dull; to drowse; to be spiritless or gloomy.
Demoniac phrensy, moping melancholy.
--Or but a sickly part of one true sense
Could not so mope.
MOPE, v.t. To make stupid or spiritless.
MOPE, n. A stupid or low spirited person; a drone.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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]

Merriam Webster's

I. intransitive verb (moped; moping) Etymology: probably from obsolete mop, mope fool Date: 1568 1. archaic to act in a dazed or stupid manner 2. to give oneself up to brooding ; become listless or dejected 3. to move slowly or aimlessly ; dawdle • moper noun • mopey adjective II. noun Date: 1693 1. one that mopes 2. plural blues 1

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. & n. --v.intr. be gloomily depressed or listless; behave sulkily. --n. 1 a person who mopes. 2 (the mopes) low spirits. Derivatives: moper n. mopy adj. (mopier, mopiest). mopily adv. mopiness n. Etymology: 16th c.: prob. rel. to mope, mopp(e) fool

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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. ``Moping melancholy.'' --Milton. A sickly part of one true sense Could not so mope. --Shak.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Mope Mope, v. t. To make spiritless and stupid. [Obs.]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Mope Mope, n. A dull, spiritless person. --Burton.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(mopes, moping, moped) If you mope, you feel miserable and do not feel interested in doing anything. Get on with life and don't sit back and mope. VERB: V

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. n. 1. Be sad, be gloomy, be dejected, look downcast, look blue, wear a long face. 2. Be dull, be listless, be stupid, take no interest in anything, be spiritless, be gloomy.

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