What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Mopier vs Ropier - What's the difference?

mopier | ropier |

As adjectives the difference between mopier and ropier

is that mopier is (mopey) while ropier is (ropy).

mopier

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (mopey)

    • mopey

    English

    Alternative forms

    * mopy

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Given to moping; in a depressed condition, low in spirits; lackadaisical.
  • * 1888 , , Beechcroft at Rockstone , ch. 14:
    • [T]hat is partly owing . . . to young Alexis having been desultory and mopy of late—not taking the interest in his music he did.
  • * 1917 , , Anne's House of Dreams , ch. 11:
    • He got mopy and melancholy, and couldn't or wouldn't work.
  • * 2003 , Michael Kinsley, " Why Bush Angers Liberals," Time , 13 Oct.:
    • 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 .

    Anagrams

    *

    ropier

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (ropy)

    • ropy

    English

    Alternative forms

    * ropey

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Resembling a rope.
  • Capable of forming rope-like or thread-like structures.
  • (British, colloquial) Of poor quality; in poor health.
  • *2012 , The Economist, Sept. 8th, " Emigration: On The Road"
  • *:Although Britain’s migration figures are ropey , other data point in the same direction.
  • (of milk or another liquid) Slimy, as'' after the action of ''Enterobacter aerogenes in syrup.

    • Related terms

    * rope

    Anagrams

    * ----