Antonyms for mope

Grammar : Verb

Spell : mohp

Phonetic Transcription : moʊp

Definition of mope

Origin : 1560s, "to move and act unconsciously;" 1580s, "to be listless and apathetic," the sound of the word perhaps somehow suggestive of low feelings (cf. Low German mopen "to sulk," Dutch moppen "to grumble, to grouse," Danish maabe, dialectal Swedish mopa "to mope"). Related: Moped; moping; mopey; mopish.

verb pout, be dejected

Example sentences :

You have done nothing but mope about, and look as miserable as a boiled owl.
Extract from : « Australia Revenged » by Boomerang

She must either submit to it or shut herself up and mope and not go out at all.
Extract from : « Under Fire » by Charles King

The gardener said I was "off my feed," and his wife feared I should mope to death.
Extract from : « Cat and Dog » by Julia Charlotte Maitland

Neglected and idle, he did not grumble; straitened and poor, he did not mope.
Extract from : « The Sayings Of Confucius » by Confucius

I should only mope here and fret, and come to no good, and give you no pride in me at all.
Extract from : « Marjorie » by Justin Huntly McCarthy

"I'm tired o' doin' nowt but mope i' th' house," Liz fretted.
Extract from : « That Lass O' Lowrie's » by Frances Hodgson Burnett

He would not mope, and hang down his head, and wear the willow.
Extract from : « The Belton Estate » by Anthony Trollope

She did not mope but she seemed to consider her life now ordered, not completed, but to be as it now was.
Extract from : « Dominie Dean » by Ellis Parker Butler

"Thank God, Evgenii has ceased to mope," he confided in a whisper to his wife.
Extract from : « Fathers and Sons » by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

To mope, and wail, and lie on the carpet like a dead chicken?
Extract from : « The Knickerbocker, Vol. 57, No. 1, January 1861 » by Various

Synonyms for mope

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