Dope vs Dopey - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between dope and dopey

is that dope is great, amazing or extraordinary while dopey is stupid, silly.

is any viscous liquid or paste, such as a lubricant, used in preparing a surface.

is to affect with drugs.

(uncountable) Any viscous liquid or paste, such as a lubricant, used in preparing a surface.

(uncountable) An absorbent material used to hold a liquid.

(uncountable, aeronautics) Any varnish used to coat a part, such as an airplane wing or a hot-air balloon in order to waterproof, strengthen,

(uncountable, slang) Any illicit or narcotic drug that produces euphoria or satisfies an addiction; particularly heroin.

* 1953 , , Too Many Songs by Tom Lehrer , Pantheon, 1981, p. 18

Here's a cure for all your troubles, here's an end to all distress. It's the old dope peddler, with his powdered happiness.''

(uncountable, slang) Information.

* What's the latest dope on the stock market?

(countable, slang) A stupid person.

* See also

* dope fiend * dope sheet * dope slap/dope-slap

(slang) To affect with drugs.

To treat with dope (lubricant, etc.).

(electronics) To add a dopant such as arsenic to (a pure semiconductor such as silicon).

(slang) To use drugs.

(er)

(slang) Great, amazing or extraordinary.

That party was dope !

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(en adjective)

Stupid, silly.

That idea is dopey

* dopiness