MOPES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mopes mean? 

• MOPES (noun)
  The noun MOPES has 1 sense:

1. an informal expression for a mildly depressed state

  Familiarity information: MOPES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MOPES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An informal expression for a mildly depressed state

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

dumps; mopes

Context example:

have the mopes

Hypernyms ("mopes" is a kind of...):

low spirits (a state of mild depression)

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)

 Context examples 

She's got most of the symptoms—is twittery and cross, doesn't eat, lies awake, and mopes in corners.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

It may be that he misses in his mistress, something that enlivened him and made him younger; but he mopes, and his sight is weak, and his limbs are feeble, and my aunt is sorry that he objects to her no more, but creeps near her as he lies on Dora's bed—she sitting at the bedside—and mildly licks her hand.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)