MOPEY Synonyms: 64 Similar and Opposite Words

mopey

adjective

Definition of mopey

as in pouting

given to or displaying a resentful silence and often irritability I don't know what's made him all mopey, but he's getting hard to live with

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Recent Examples of mopey Rubin sets the tone with a lead turn that’s perky but not quirky, expansively emotional but not mopey, and the rest of the cast similarly pitch their performances somewhere just north of naturalistic but south of soapy. — Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 4 Aug. 2026 After an overly mopey Season 1, letting our series lead actually take pleasure in a life that most people can only dream about is a smart shift, but Tropper also gives Coop two distinct, disparate, and clarifying obstacles. — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 2 Apr. 2026 Farrell’s Sonny Crockett is a brooding, messy, temperamental cop whose impulsiveness and (ahem) intensity is balanced by his mopey vulnerability. — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2025 At least original franchise director James Wan had his signature boom-crash camera snaps to shock some urgency into the mopey storytelling. — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 3 Sep. 2025

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Adjective

Bill Murray plays Phil Connors, an irritable, cynical weatherman sent to Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, to report a story about the town’s quaint groundhog ceremony.

— David Faris, TheWeek, 10 Aug. 2026
Whether a balanced market can be achieved with competing cartels will be an interesting experiment in a sometimes-irritable trade relationship.

— Tim Treadgold, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026

Definition of irritable

Adjective

The pilot is charming and funny, immediately drawing me into the dynamic of its two characters — Romy is a bit more gregarious and sarcastic, Bobby more sensitive and sullen.

— Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 17 July 2026
Some Redditors have reported the same problem in sullen language.

— Pedro Moura, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2026

Definition of sullen

Adjective

Skillfully carrying the tale as Kimberly is Ann Morrison, marvelously placing the qualities of a bubbly when not sulky teen in the voice and body of an older woman.

— Rob Hubbard, Twin Cities, 25 Feb. 2026
Keep an eye out for chartreuses, browns, and bright sky blues, along with sulky mauves and beiges in a plaster finish.

— Abby Wolner, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Feb. 2026

Definition of sulky

Adjective

The bend-over-at-your-own-risk-tight culottes with the pouty flare where no flare should ever be.

— Pat Beall, Sun Sentinel, 25 July 2026
Juliette later makes a stop to see Shirley, who is still being unreasonably pouty about her amnesiac friend not remembering her — and is, again, curtly dismissive of Juliette’s search for Lukas.

— Noel Murray, Vulture, 17 July 2026

Definition of pouty

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