Mope vs. Brood — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Mope and Brood
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Mope
"Mope" is the fourth single released from American music band the Bloodhound Gang's 1999 album Hooray for Boobies. A music video for the single was released in June 2000.
Brood
The young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds hatched at one time and cared for together.
Mope
To think gloomily and persistently about something; be dejected.
Brood
The children in one family.
Mope
To move in a listless or aimless manner, especially from being sad or depressed
Moped about the house all summer.
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Brood
To focus the attention on a subject persistently and moodily; worry
Brooded about his future.
Brooded over the insult for several days.
Mope
A person given to gloomy or dejected moods.
Brood
To be depressed
All he seemed to do was sit and brood.
Mope
Mopes Low spirits; the blues. Often used with the.
Brood
To sit on or hatch eggs.
Mope
(intransitive) To carry oneself in a depressed, lackadaisical manner; to give oneself up to low spirits; to pout, sulk.
Brood
To protect developing eggs or young.
Mope
(transitive) To make spiritless and stupid.
Brood
To hover envelopingly; hang
Mist brooded over the moor.
Mope
The act of moping
When she gets upset, she has a little mope, and then gets over it.
Brood
To think about (something) persistently or moodily
Brooded that her work might come to nothing.
Mope
(archaic) A dull, spiritless person.
Brood
To sit on or hatch (eggs).
Mope
(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.
Brood
To protect (developing eggs or young).
Mope
To be dull and spiritless; to spend time doing little; as, to mope around the house.
A sickly part of one true senseCould not so mope.
Brood
Kept for breeding
A brood hen.
Mope
To make spiritless and stupid.
Brood
The young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds or fowl hatched at one time by the same mother.
Mope
A dull, spiritless person.
Brood
(uncountable) The young of any egg-laying creature, especially if produced at the same time.
Mope
Someone who wastes time
Brood
The eggs and larvae of social insects such as bees, ants and some wasps, especially when gathered together in special brood chambers or combs within the colony.
Mope
Move around slowly and aimlessly
Brood
The children in one family; offspring.
Mope
Be apathetic, gloomy, or dazed
Brood
That which is bred or produced; breed; species.
Brood
Parentage.
Brood
(mining) Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.
Brood
(of animals) Kept or reared for breeding.
Brood ducks
A brood mare
Brood
(transitive) To keep an egg warm to make it hatch.
In some species of birds, both the mother and father brood the eggs.
Brood
(transitive) To protect (something that is gradually maturing); to foster.
Under the rock was a midshipman fish, brooding a mass of eggs.
Brood
(intransitive) (typically with about or over) To dwell upon moodily and at length, mainly alone.
Brood
(intransitive) To be bred.
Brood
The young birds hatched at one time; a hatch; as, a brood of chickens.
As a hen doth gather her brood under her wings.
A hen followed by a brood of ducks.
Brood
The young from the same dam, whether produced at the same time or not; young children of the same mother, especially if nearly of the same age; offspring; progeny; as, a woman with a brood of children.
The lion roars and gluts his tawny brood.
Brood
That which is bred or produced; breed; species.
Flocks of the airy brood,(Cranes, geese or long-necked swans).
Brood
Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.
Brood
Sitting or inclined to sit on eggs.
Brood
Kept for breeding from; as, a brood mare; brood stock; having young; as, a brood sow.
Brood
To sit on and cover eggs, as a fowl, for the purpose of warming them and hatching the young; or to sit over and cover young, as a hen her chickens, in order to warm and protect them; hence, to sit quietly, as if brooding.
Birds of calm sir brooding on the charmed wave.
Brood
To have the mind dwell continuously or moodily on a subject; to think long and anxiously; to be in a state of gloomy, serious thought; - usually followed by over or on; as, to brood over misfortunes.
Brooding on unprofitable gold.
Brooding over all these matters, the mother felt like one who has evoked a spirit.
When with downcast eyes we muse and brood.
Brood
To sit over, cover, and cherish; as, a hen broods her chickens.
Brood
To cherish with care.
Brood
To think anxiously or moodily upon.
You'll sit and brood your sorrows on a throne.
Brood
The young of an animal cared for at one time
Brood
Think moodily or anxiously about something
Brood
Hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing;
The terrible vision brooded over her all day long
Brood
Be in a huff and display one's displeasure;
She is pouting because she didn't get what she wanted
Brood
Be in a huff; be silent or sullen
Brood
Sit on (eggs);
Birds brood
The female covers the eggs
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