noun
Meaning 1
The act of moping
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- When she gets upset, she has a little mope, and then gets over it.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
mope
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: /məʊp/
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Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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General-American: /moʊp/
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rhymes with -əʊp
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CMU ARPABET: M OW1 P Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A dull, spiritless person.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: mopus
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: pornography industry
Examples
- 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 around the studios hoping for a bit role, which if they're lucky might bring them $50 plus food — and the chance to have sex with a real, live woman.https://web.archive.org/web/20110310155324/http://www.laweekly.com/2011-02-24/news/porn-machete-murder/
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 4
To carry oneself in a depressed, lackadaisical manner; to give oneself up to low spirits; to pout, sulk.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 5
To make spiritless and stupid.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 6
someone who wastes time
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: dallier, dillydallier, dilly-dallier, lounger
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: idler, loafer, do-nothing, layabout, bum
verb
Meaning 7
be apathetic, gloomy, or dazed
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: moon around, moon about
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: be
verb
Meaning 8
move around slowly and aimlessly
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: mope around
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: move
History
Etymology
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.
Across languages
Translations
21 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Catalan: defallir — be depressed
- Catalan: desanimar-se — be depressed
- Catalan: marfondre's — be depressed
- Chinese Mandarin: 懶散的 /懒散的 — be depressed
- Czech: být jako tělo bez duše — be depressed
- Czech: být sklíčený — be depressed
- Galician: desanimarse — be depressed
- Galician: perder o ánimo — be depressed
- Hungarian: búslakodik — be depressed
- Hungarian: szomorkodik — be depressed
- Hungarian: búsul — be depressed
- Italian: essere depresso — be depressed
- Italian: avere il muso lungo — be depressed
- Italian: piangersi addosso — be depressed
- Māori: wherū — be depressed
- Slovak: zhrýzať sa — be depressed
- Spanish: desanimarse — be depressed
- Spanish: llorisquear — be depressed
- Spanish: lamentar — be depressed
- Spanish: estar deprimido — be depressed
- Swedish: deppa — be depressed