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moping
adjective as in gloomy
adjective as in huffy
adjective as in moody
Strong matches
Weak matches
- angry
- cantankerous
- capricious
- changeable
- crabbed
- crestfallen
- dismal
- doleful
- dour
- down in the dumps
- down in the mouth
- erratic
- fickle
- fitful
- flighty
- frowning
- gloomy
- glum
- huffy
- ill-humored
- ill-tempered
- impulsive
- in a huff
- in the doldrums
- introspective
- irascible
- irritable
- lugubrious
- mercurial
- miserable
- morose
- offended
- out of sorts
- pensive
- petulant
- piqued
- sad
- saturnine
- short-tempered
- splenetic
- sullen
- testy
- touchy
adjective as in morose
Weak matches
- acrimonious
- blue
- brusque
- cantankerous
- choleric
- churlish
- crabbed
- crabby
- cross
- dolorous
- down
- down in the dumps
- down in the mouth
- frowning
- gruff
- harsh
- having blue devils
- having the blahs
- ill-humored
- ill-tempered
- in a bad mood
- in a blue funk
- irritable
- low
- moody
- perverse
- perversive
- saturnine
- singing the blues
- snappish
- sour
- splenetic
- sulky
- taciturn
- troubled
adjective as in saturnine
adjective as in sulky
adjective as in tenebrific
Weak matches
- black
- bleak
- blue
- blue funk
- broody
- chapfallen
- cheerless
- crabbed
- crestfallen
- dark
- dejected
- depressed
- desolate
- despondent
- disconsolate
- dismal
- dispirited
- dour
- down in the dumps
- down in the mouth
- downcast
- downhearted
- dragged
- dreary
- forlorn
- glum
- in low spirits
- in the dumps
- joyless
- low
- melancholy
- mirthless
- miserable
- moody
- mopish
- morose
- mournful
- oppressed
- pessimistic
- sad
- saturnine
- solemn
- somber
- sulky
- sullen
- surly
- ugly
- unhappy
- weary
- woebegone
- woeful
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Example Sentences
Faced with a moping, stony-faced new partner, Beth did not selflessly set aside her own pain to help.
Think Grey's Anatomy with less moping and more ass-kicking.
Myself, when I begun my carear among the fair six, I was always sighing and moping, like this poar Frenchman.
Minetta suspected her of moping for John Willie, and told her that he often disappeared for days at a time like that.
He would otherwise have been sure to make several horrible songs about her experiences with the moping Elvira.
He went back to the hotel buoyed up in spite of himself, and found Alan moping in the reading-room.
They spent the day moping and fretting, because they no longer had fine clothes to wear, and could not go to fine parties.
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On this page you'll find 332 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to moping, such as: depressed, dismal, dour, forlorn, glum, and melancholy.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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