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MOPE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who wastes time

Synonyms:

dallier; dilly-dallier; dillydallier; lounger; mope

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("mope" is a kind of...):

bum; do-nothing; idler; layabout; loafer (person who does no work)

Derivation:

mope (be apathetic, gloomy, or dazed)

mope (move around slowly and aimlessly)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Be apathetic, gloomy, or dazed

Synonyms:

moon about; moon around; mope

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Hypernyms (to "mope" is one way to...):

be (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun))

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Sentence example:

Sam and Sue mope over the results of the experiment

Derivation:

mope (someone who wastes time)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Move around slowly and aimlessly

Synonyms:

mope; mope around

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "mope" is one way to...):

move (move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

mope (someone who wastes time)

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 Context examples: 

They would have talked to me too, but I held back, and moped in my corner; scared by their love-making and hilarity, though it was far from boisterous, and almost wondering that no judgement came upon them for their hardness of heart.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It may be that he misses in his mistress, something that enlivened him and made him younger; but he mopes, and his sight is weak, and his limbs are feeble, and my aunt is sorry that he objects to her no more, but creeps near her as he lies on Dora's bed—she sitting at the bedside—and mildly licks her hand.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)