mope
verb /məʊp/
/məʊp/
[intransitive]Verb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they mope | /məʊp/ /məʊp/ |
| he / she / it mopes | /məʊps/ /məʊps/ |
| past simple moped | /məʊpt/ /məʊpt/ |
| past participle moped | /məʊpt/ /məʊpt/ |
| -ing form moping | /ˈməʊpɪŋ/ /ˈməʊpɪŋ/ |
- to spend your time doing nothing and feeling sorry for yourself synonym brood
- Moping won't do any good!
Extra Examples- It would benefit no one if we all sat moping for the next week.
- You should build on the little triumphs rather than moping about disasters.
Word Originmid 16th cent. (the early noun sense being ‘fool or simpleton’): perhaps of Scandinavian origin; compare with Swedish dialect mopa ‘to sulk’.