mopes

Wallows in gloom

Mopes is a low mood or sulky state, used with "the": He's got the mopes today.

The word comes from the verb mope, meaning to brood or sulk listlessly: She moped around the house all weekend.

Someone who mopes is a mope—though this noun more often appears in the plural: a bunch of sad mopes at the bar.

sadness

melancholy

Subdued, lasting sadness

unhappiness · misery · sorrow · woefulness · dejection · doldrums · blues · heaviness · somberness · low spirits

sulking

sulkiness

State of moody resentment

grumpiness · sullenness · moodiness · brooding · pouting · wallowing · stewing · huffiness · sourness · crankiness

lethargy

listlessness

Absence of energy, enthusiasm

torpor · inertia · malaise · ennui · weariness · droopiness · lifelessness · apathy · dullness · flatness

brooding

introspection

Observing one's own mind

pondering · mulling · stewing · fixating · obsessing · preoccupation · self-pity · navel-gazing · lamenting · agonizing

person

sad sack

Pitifully inept person

party pooper · sourpuss · grump · Eeyore · downer · drag · stick-in-the-mud · malcontent · whiner · complainer

Categories
Opposites
emotional state and behavior

mopesrejoices

Feels and shows elation

celebrates · exults · delights · revels · elation

social energy and expressiveness

mopessocializes

Engages with others

mingles · bustles · cavorts · frolics · carouses

Phrases
Family

mope, moped, moping, moper, mopers, mopiness

Familiarity
Top 100,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated G