Dictionary

mopey en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈmoʊpi/ (General-American)
• /ˈmoːpi/ (Multicultural-London-English)
• /ˈməʊpi/ (British, Southern, Standard)
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• /ˈmoʊpi/ (Multicultural-London-English)
• /ˈməʊpɪ/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Etymology tree English mope Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English mopey From mope + -y.

Meanings

1. Given to moping; in a depressed condition, low in spirits; lackadaisical.
   • In the 1980s, liberals nursed the fear that we really might be dwelling in an irrelevant cul-de-sac outside of the majority American culture. That kept us sullen and mopey. 2003 October 13, Michael Kinsley, “Why Bush Angers Liberals”, in Time:
   • [T]hat is partly owing . . . to young Alexis having been desultory and mopy of late—not taking the interest in his music he did. 1888, Charlotte M. Yonge, chapter 14, in Beechcroft at Rockstone:
   • He got mopy and melancholy, and couldn't or wouldn't work. 1917, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter 11, in Anne's House of Dreams:

Forms

Synonyms

lumpish · miserable · dispassionate · world-weary · adiaphroistic · lukewarm · joyless · threnetical · indifferent · wretched · pococurante · sullen · moody · torpid · Plutonic · atrabiliary · spiritless · dull · blue · unmoved · ruthful · elegious · gallionic · saddened · lotophagous · despondent · dull · melancholy · cut up · deaf · insensible · heartless · depressed · querulous · grieving · woe · down in the mouth · downhearted · spiritless · mournful · unhappy · dejected · heartsick · blitheless · atrabilious · apathistical · sombre · down in the dumps · inconsolable · Laodicean · chapfallen · woebegone · bummed out · ineffervescible · languid · passionate · morose · phlegmatic · unconsolable · mopey · saturnine · enervated · torpedinous · downcast · nonchalant · apathetic · sorrow-ridden · threnetic · sad · disheartened · lethargic · damp · halfhearted · languorous · cheerless · shiftless · untouched · cool · chopfallen · dismal · meh · dolesome · supine · blasé · elegiac · heavy-hearted · uncheerful · low-spirited · uninterested · infelicitous · glum · unzealous · gloomy · uncaring · jawfallen · crestfallen · lackadaisical · down · sorrowful · listless · tepid · listless · insouciant · jaded · tristful · impassive · nonplussed · unhappy · unenthusiastic · forlorn · sorrowsome · blithe · otiose · disgruntled · lamentful · triste · disconsolate · lachrymose · mopey · Plutonian · solemn · wistful · unlively · uncheery · doleful · plaintive · lugubrious · heartsore · unimpressible · dispirited · grief-stricken · unaroused · downsome · melancholic · shattered · unconcerned · woeful · unlively · low

Translations (4)

es sombrío (Translations) · es deprimido (Translations) · es llorisqueante (Translations) · es lamentoso (Translations)