mope
pronunciation
How to pronounce mope in British English:
UK [məʊp]
How to pronounce mope in American English:
US [moʊp]
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- Noun:
- someone who wastes time
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- Verb:
- move around slowly and aimlessly
- be apathetic, gloomy, or dazed
Word Origin
- mope (v.)
- 1560s, "to move and act unconsciously;" 1580s, "to be listless and apathetic," the sound of the word perhaps somehow suggestive of low feelings (compare Low German mopen "to sulk," Dutch moppen "to grumble, to grouse," Danish maabe, dialectal Swedish mopa "to mope"). Related: Moped; moping; mopey; mopish.
Example
- 1. You going to mope like this all day ?
- 2. Why do you wait and mope ?
- 3. It would be selfish to sit around and mope while expecting them to adjust .
- 4. What , better he should mope ?
- 5. Yet however much people are in turmoil , few mope .