Word Meanings - MOPE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To be dull and spiritless. "Moping melancholy." Milton. A sickly part of one true sense Could not so mope. Shak.

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• MOPSICAL
  Shortsighted; mope-eyed.
• MOPISH
  Dull; spiritless; dejected. -- Mop"ish*ly, adv. -- Mop"ish*ness, n.
• SENSE
  A faculty, possessed by animals, of perceiving external objects by means of impressions made upon certain organs (sensory or sense organs) of the body, or of perceiving changes in the condition of the body; as, the senses of sight, smell, hearing,
• MOPSEY; MOPSY
  1. A moppet. 2. A slatternly, untidy woman. Halliwell.
• COULD
  Was, should be, or would be, able, capable, or susceptible. Used as an auxiliary, in the past tense or in the conditional present.
• MOP
  1. An implement for washing floors, or the like, made of a piece of cloth, or a collection of thrums, or coarse yarn, fastened to a handle. 2. A fair where servants are hired. or rags are fastened. A clamp for holding the thrums or rags of a mop.
• MOPE-EYED
  Shortsighted; purblind.
• MOPLAH
  One of a class of Mohammedans in Malabar.
• MOPE
  A dull, spiritless person. Burton.
• MELANCHOLY
  1. Depressed in spirits; dejected; gloomy dismal. Shak. 2. Producing great evil and grief; causing dejection; calamitous; afflictive; as, a melancholy event. 3. Somewhat deranged in mind; having the jugment impaired. Bp. Reynolds. 4. Favorable
• MOPSTICK
  The long handle of a mop.
• MOPEFUL
  Mopish.
• MILTONIAN
  Miltonic. Lowell.
• SENSEFUL
  Full of sense, meaning, or reason; reasonable; judicious. "Senseful speech." Spenser. "Men, otherwise senseful and ingenious." Norris.
• MILTONIC
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
• SICKLY
  1. Somewhat sick; disposed to illness; attended with disease; as, a sickly body. This physic but prolongs thy sickly days. Shak. 2. Producing, or tending to, disease; as, a sickly autumn; a sickly climate. Cowper. 3. Appearing as if sick; weak;
• SENSELESS
  Destitute of, deficient in, or contrary to, sense; without sensibility or feeling; unconscious; stupid; foolish; unwise; unreasonable. You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things. Shak. The ears are senseless that should give us hearing.
• MOPUS
  A mope; a drone. Swift.
• MOPBOARD
  A narrow board nailed against the wall of a room next to the floor; skirting board; baseboard. See Baseboard.
• SPIRITLESS
  1. Destitute of spirit; wanting animation; wanting cheerfulness; dejected; depressed. 2. Destitute of vigor; wanting life, courage, or fire. A men so faint, so spiritless, So dull, so dead in lock, so woebegone. Shak. 3. Having no breath; extinct;
• THERMOPHILIC
  Heat-loving; -- applied esp. to certain bacteria.
• INSENSE
  To make to understand; to instruct. Halliwell.
• CHROMOPHANE
  A general name for the several coloring matters, red, green, yellow, etc., present in the inner segments in the cones of the retina, held in solution by fats, and slowly decolorized by light; distinct from the photochemical pigments of the rods
• CYMOPHANOUS
  Having a wavy, floating light; opalescent; chatoyant.
• TOMOPTERIS
  A genus of transparent marine annelids which swim actively at the surface of the sea. They have deeply divided or forked finlike organs . This genus is the type of the order, or suborder, Gymnocopa.
• NOMOPELMOUS
  Having a separate and simple tendon to flex the first toe, or hallux, as do passerine birds.
• SPERMOPHYTE
  Any plant which produces true seeds; -- a term recently proposed to replace phænogam.
• CORMOPHYLOGENY
  The phylogeny of groups or families of individuals. Haeckel.
• HOMOPTERA
  A suborder of Hemiptera, in which both pairs of wings are similar in texture, and do not overlap when folded, as in the cicada. See Hemiptera.
• HOMOPHYLIC
  Relating to homophily.
• ENTOMOPHAGOUS
  Feeding on insects; insectivorous.
• CYMOPHANE
  See CHRYSOBERYL
• SPHYGMOPHONE
  An electrical instrument for determining by the ear the rhythm of the pulse of a person at a distance.
• CHROMOPHOTOGRAPHY
  The art of producing photographs in colors.