Definitions for mopes

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Spelling: [mohp]
IPA: /moʊp/

Mopes is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 73 anagrams from letters in mopes (emops).

Definitions for mopes

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 mopes

First recorded in 1560-70; variant of mop2

Examples for mopes

And willful too—he just mopes around because he wants to show me I'm wrong.

You cant think how thin she has grown, and she mopes like an old woman.

She won't have but one candle lighted, and she sits and mopes in the dark.

Why mopes she, looking so haggard, with features expressionless and inane?

Come on, Nell, don't let us sit here and get the mopes, and think of our consciences.

Whereas Gotham mopes in the shadows, The Flash bursts like a splash page.

He mopes there all free times, and has about fifty marks already for doing it.

She isn't the same that she was at all; but mopes about more than half of her time.

He's worried nearly to death in town, and he comes out here and mopes about.

The servants have told him she mopes around and is getting thin and pale.

Word Value for mopes
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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