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# mope

«mope» in Mova's school dictionary: **to be low, sad and dull, sitting about and not wanting to…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (mope, mopes, moped, moping)

### meaning for a pupil

To mope is to be low, sad and dull, sitting about and not wanting to join in. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mope/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

a character who sulks or sits about after losing, or who shows dull low spirits in a tale

### examples

- Don't mope; go and play with the others. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mope/#x1)
- He moped in his room all day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mope/#x2)
- Brer Rabbit moped about the house, looking sad. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mope/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [Connor's mum finds him moping.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/470-the-friend-who-only-calls-when-they-need-something/2/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «mope» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mope/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.