mopey

comparative mopier · superlative mopiest · alternative mopy

1. Given to moping; in a depressed condition, low in spirits; lackadaisical.

   He got mopy and melancholy, and couldn't or wouldn't work.

   1917, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter 11, in Anne's House of Dreams

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   [T]hat is partly owing . . . to young Alexis having been desultory and mopy of late—not taking the interest in his music he did.

   1888, Charlotte M. Yonge, chapter 14, in Beechcroft at Rockstone

   In the 1980s, liberals nursed the fear that we really might be dwelling in an irrelevant cul-de-sac outside of the majority American culture. That kept us sullen and mopey.

   2003 October 13, Michael Kinsley, “Why Bush Angers Liberals”, in Time

   Synonyms: listless, unhappy, adiaphroistic, apathetic, apathistical, blasé, blithe, deaf