Definitions for mope

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Spelling: [mohp]
IPA: /moʊp/

Mope is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 34 anagrams from letters in mope (emop).

Definitions for mope

noun

  1. a person who mopes or is given to moping.
  2. mopes, depressed spirits; blues.

verb (used with object)

  1. to make dejected, listless, or apathetic.

verb (used without object)

  1. to be sunk in dejection or listless apathy; sulk; brood.

Origin of mope

First recorded in 1560-70; variant of mop2

Examples for mope

You have done nothing but mope about, and look as miserable as a boiled owl.

She did not mope but she seemed to consider her life now ordered, not completed, but to be as it now was.

He would not mope, and hang down his head, and wear the willow.

"Thank God, Evgenii has ceased to mope," he confided in a whisper to his wife.

"I'm tired o' doin' nowt but mope i' th' house," Liz fretted.

I should only mope here and fret, and come to no good, and give you no pride in me at all.

The gardener said I was "off my feed," and his wife feared I should mope to death.

To mope, and wail, and lie on the carpet like a dead chicken?

Neglected and idle, he did not grumble; straitened and poor, he did not mope.

She must either submit to it or shut herself up and mope and not go out at all.

Word Value for mope
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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