different between mope vs grieve

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /m??p/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /mo?p/
• Rhymes: -??p

Etymology

Compare Danish måbe, German muffen, French moue.

Verb

mope (third-person singular simple present mopes, present participle moping, simple past and past participle moped)

1. (intransitive) To carry oneself in a depressed, lackadaisical manner; to give oneself up to low spirits; to pout, sulk.
2. (transitive) To make spiritless and stupid.

Derived terms

• moper
• mopery
• mopey

Translations

Noun

mope (plural mopes)

1. The act of moping

2. (archaic) A dull, spiritless person.

   Synonym: mopus

3. (pornography industry) A bottom feeder who "mopes" around a pornography studio hoping for his big break and often does bit parts in exchange for room and board and meager pay.
   • 2011: LA Weekly, documenting uses dating to the 1990s

     The porn industry is many things. Subtle is not one of them. So when Porn Inc. went searching for a job title for people like Stephen Hill, the choice was "mope." It's based on the off-camera life of these fringe actors, hangers-on who mope around the studios hoping for a bit role, which if they're lucky might bring them $50 plus food — and the chance to have sex with a real, live woman.[1]

Anagrams

• poem, pome, poëm

Yola

Etymology

Cognate with English mope.

Noun

mope

1. a fool, astonished

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA^(key): /??i?v/
• Rhymes: -i?v

Etymology 1

From Middle English greven, from Old French grever (“to burden”), from Latin grav?, grav?re, from adjective gravis (“grave”).

Verb

grieve (third-person singular simple present grieves, present participle grieving, simple past and past participle grieved)

1. (transitive) To cause sorrow or distress to.

   • Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God.

   • Thy maidens griev'd themselves at my concern.

2. (transitive) To feel very sad about; to mourn; to sorrow for.

   to grieve one's fate

3. (intransitive) To experience grief.
4. (transitive, archaic) To harm.
5. (transitive) To submit or file a grievance (about).
   • 2009 D'Amico, Rob, Editor, Texas Teacher, published by Texas AFT (affiliate of American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO); "Austin classified employees gain due process rights", April 2009, p14:

     Even if the executive director rules against the employee on appeal, the employee can still grieve the termination to the superintendent followed by an appeal to the [...] Board of Trustees.

Derived terms

• begrieve
• grieved
• griever
• grievingly

Related terms

• grievance
• grievous
• grief

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English greve, greyve, grave, grafe, from Old Norse greifi, from Middle Low German gr?ve, grâve,related to Old English grœfa, groefa, variants of Old English ?er?fa (“steward, reeve”). More at reeve.

Noun

grieve (plural grieves)

1. (obsolete) A governor of a town or province.
2. (chiefly Scotland) A manager or steward, e.g. of a farm.

Derived terms

• grieveship

Anagrams

• regive

Old French

Verb

grieve

1. third-person singular present indicative of grever