Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Mopish; stupid; dull.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Mopish.
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- adjective Inclined to
mope .
Etymologies
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mope + -ful
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They had carried her to the grave, and nothing would content me but to visit the spot three or four times a day, and to sit in the room in which she died, in stupid and mopeful silence, all night long.
Jane Talbot Charles Brockden Brown 1790
qms commented on the word mopeful
My tossing and turning has ceased -
The sun has arrived in the East.
In darkness I'm mopeful
But dawn makes me hopeful
I'll grind out a couplet at least.
September 5, 2017