Moping

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Mope \Mope\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Moped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Moping}.] [Cf. D. moppen to pout, Prov. G. muffen to sulk.]
     To be dull and spiritless; to spend time doing little; as, to
     mope around the house. "Moping melancholy." --Milton.
     [1913 Webster]
  


           A sickly part of one true sense
           Could not so mope.                       --Shak.
     [1913 Webster]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  29 Moby Thesaurus words for "moping":
     beetle-browed, black, black-browed, brooding, broody, chapfallen,
     crestfallen, dark, dejected, dour, dumpish, frowning, glowering,
     glum, grim, grum, long-faced, lowering, melancholy, moodish, moody,
     mopey, mopish, morose, mumpish, scowling, sulky, sullen, surly