mopey

English

Alternative forms

• mopy

Etymology

mope +‎ -y

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈməʊ̯pɪ/
• (Standard Southern British) IPA^(key): /ˈməwpi/
• (MLE) IPA^(key): /ˈmowpi/, /ˈmoːpi/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmowpi/

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• Rhymes: -əʊpi

Adjective

mopey (comparative mopier, superlative mopiest)

1. Given to moping; in a depressed condition, low in spirits; lackadaisical.
   • 1888, Charlotte M. Yonge, chapter 14, in Beechcroft at Rockstone:

     [T]hat is partly owing . . . to young Alexis having been desultory and mopy of late—not taking the interest in his music he did.

   • 1917, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter 11, in Anne's House of Dreams:

     He got mopy and melancholy, and couldn't or wouldn't work.

   • 2003 October 13, Michael Kinsley, “Why Bush Angers Liberals”, in Time:

     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.

Anagrams

• myope, pomey