Mope - English meaning

noun

A family of birds or other young animals produced at one hatching or birth.

Usage examples:

A brood of chicks

verb

Think deeply about something that makes one unhappy, angry, or worried.

Usage examples:

She had brooded over the subject a thousand times

adjective

(of an animal) kept to be used for breeding.

Usage examples:

A brood mare

adjective

Causing feelings of severe despondency and dejection.

Usage examples:

However, persistent severe depressive moods are not part of the ‘normal’ spectrum of behaviour.

noun

A person suffering from or tending to suffer from depression.

noun

A person who often suffers from depression

Usage examples:

A depressive personality, a depressive disorder/illness

noun

The complete loss or absence of hope.

Usage examples:

A voice full of self-hatred and despair

verb

Lose or be without hope.

Usage examples:

We should not despair

noun

A feeling of being without hope or of not being able to improve a situation

Usage examples:

A few sad moments doesn’t imply feelings of despair., she flung up her arms in despair and wailed.,…

verb

Be constantly or visibly anxious.

Usage examples:

She fretted about the cost of groceries

noun

A state of anxiety.

Usage examples:

Why would anyone get themselves in a fret over something so simple?

verb

Decorate with fretwork.

Usage examples:

A botanically inspired ornamental pattern frets the ceiling

verb

Feel intense sorrow.

Usage examples:

She grieved for her father

noun

An overseer, manager, or bailiff on a farm.

noun

A habitually grumpy person.

Usage examples:

Rock's foremost poet and ill-mannered grouch

verb

Voice one's discontent ill-temperedly; grumble.

Usage examples:

There's not a lot to grouch about

noun

A grumpy person.

Usage examples:

He proved a fearful grump—not the flicker of a smile

verb

Act in a sulky, grumbling manner.

Usage examples:

He grumped at me when i moved the papers

noun

Someone who is easily annoyed and complains a lot

Usage examples:

He's only an old grump - don't listen to him.

noun

A person who deliberately spoils the enjoyment of others.

Usage examples:

A few killjoys try to reform the seasonal activities

noun

A person who does not like other people enjoying themselves

noun

A person affected with melancholia or depression.

Usage examples:

Ovid's portrayal of sappho as a desolate melancholiac

adjective

A person suffering from melancholia or depression.

Usage examples:

Ovid's portrayal of sappho as a desolate melancholiac

adjective

Feeling or expressing pensive sadness.

Usage examples:

His work often has a wistful or melancholic mood

adjective

Expressing feelings of sadness

Usage examples:

A melancholic expression, melancholic songs

noun

A state or feeling of great physical or mental distress or discomfort.

Usage examples:

A man who had brought her nothing but misery

noun

Great unhappiness

Usage examples:

[ u ] with the rice harvest, hope is sprouting amid the misery.

noun

A person who complains a lot, usually about something that does not seem important to other people

Usage examples:

They're just a lot of moaners who are never satisfied., old people have gained a reputation for bei…

noun

A person who tends to see the worst aspect of things or believe that the worst will happen.

Usage examples:

The pessimists point to ways in which life has deteriorated

noun

Someone who feels that bad things are more likely to happen than good things

Usage examples:

In the coming months pessimists will say that stocks are not a good buy., a pessimistic quarterly i…

noun

An evergreen coniferous tree which has clusters of long needle-shaped leaves. many kinds are grown for the soft timber, which is widely used for furniture and pulp, or for tar and turpentine.

Usage examples:

Hollyhock landed in a low branch of a pine tree, and dangled there as she tried to find a way to ge…

verb

Suffer a mental and physical decline, especially because of a broken heart.

Usage examples:

She thinks i am pining away from love

noun

An evergreen tree that has thin leaves like needles and that grows in cool northern regions, or the wood of these trees

Usage examples:

Bradley pined for his wife, who was far away.

verb

Feel or express discontent; fret.

Usage examples:

You mustn't let yourself repine

verb

To feel sad or complain about something, especially a bad situation

Usage examples:

She was alone and unloved, but she did not repine.

noun

A bad-tempered or habitually sullen person.

Usage examples:

Consequently i now have a reputation as a sourpuss and a grouch.

noun

A person who behaves in a way that spoils others' pleasure, especially by not joining in an activity.

Usage examples:

‘don't be a spoilsport, sidney.’

noun

A person who stops other people from enjoying themselves

Usage examples:

She did ask her dad if she could have a big party, but the old spoilsport refused.

verb

Be silent, morose, and bad-tempered out of annoyance or disappointment.

Usage examples:

He was sulking over the break-up of his band

noun

A period of sulking.

Usage examples:

She was in a fit of the sulks