mope

«mope» in Mova's school dictionary: to be low, sad and dull, sitting about and not wanting to… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (mope, mopes, moped, moping)

meaning for a pupil

To mope is to be low, sad and dull, sitting about and not wanting to join in. tree →

sense in the lessons

a character who sulks or sits about after losing, or who shows dull low spirits in a tale

examples

• Don't mope; go and play with the others. tree →
• He moped in his room all day. tree →
• Brer Rabbit moped about the house, looking sad. tree →

note

nothing for maths

In the corpora

• Connor's mum finds him moping.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «mope» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.