Mope

See also море (Cyrillic)

English

Verb

Mope (third-person singular simple present Mopes, present participle moping, simple past and past participle moped)

1. to carry one’s self in a depressed, lackadaisical manner; to give oneself up to low spirits; to pout

Derived terms

• moper
• mopery

Noun

1. (pornographic industry jargon) 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.
   • 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.[1]

Adverbs for Mope

glumly; dismally; gloomily; morbidly; despondently; romantically; drearily; pallidly; sadly; abnormally.

Thesaurus

ache, agonize, amble, bitch, bleed, brood, brood over, brooder, clock watcher, dallier, dawdle, dawdler, depressive, despond, diddler, dillydallier, do-nothing, dolittle, doodler, drift, faineant, fret, gentleman of leisure, gloomy Gus, goldbrick, goldbricker, goof-off, grieve, grouch, grump, idler, laggard, linger, lingerer, loafer, loiterer, loller, lotus-eater, lounger, lubber, melancholiac, melancholic, moper, mosey, mourn, muck, pine, pine away, potterer, pout, putterer, slouch, sloucher, slug, sluggard, sorrow, sourpuss, stick-in-the-mud, stroll, sulk, take on, time killer, time waster, trifler, waiter on Providence

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -əʊp

Etymology

Cf. Danish måbe, German muffen.

Anagrams

• poem, poëm
• pome