different between mope vs myope

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

Noun

myope (plural myopes)

1. One who has myopia.

Translations

Anagrams

• mopey, pomey

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mj?p/

Adjective

myope (plural myopes)

1. short-sighted
2. narrow-minded

• myope comme une taupe

Noun

myope m or f (plural myopes)

1. a short-sighted person

Further reading

• “myope” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

German

Pronunciation

Adjective

myope

1. inflection of myop:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular