agonize, grieve, complain; languish, despond, droop, sink; despair, lose heart, lose the will to live, give up. -n. 2. brooder, melancholic, sobersides, croaker, moper; pessimist, SI. gloomy Gus, damper, wet blanket; sourpuss, sorehead, grouch, crosspatch, com-plainer, hypochondriac.
3. dillydallier, dallier, slouch, goldbricker, sluggard, loafer, idler, Inf. stick-in-the-mud; laggard, dawdler, clock watcher, time killer, putterer, potterer.
4. mopes blues, low spirits, Inf. dumps, doldrums; sulks, SI. mulligrubs, Inf. blahs, megrims, mumps.
mopish, adj. dejected, despondent, depressed, melancholy, atrabilious; sullen, glum, blue, sulky, dark, beetle-browed; funky, mopey, low, down, sad, dispirited, out of sorts; spiritless, lackadaisical, listless, sluggish, heavy; doleful, moody, grim, dumpish, mumpish; long-faced, dreary, crestfallen, brooding, moping; jaundiced, disconsolate, gloomy, woebegone.
moppet, n. child, tyke, cherub, innocent; dear, love, darling, mignon, doll, jewel, honey, apple of one's eye; pet, favorite, cosset, lamb, dumpling, duck; young girl, kitten, chick, baby, nymph, nymphet.
moral, adj. 1. ethical, righteous, just, good, fair, square; upright, honest, honorable, moralistic, decent, noble; open, straightforward, veracious; high-minded, principled, responsible; proper, meet, right, correct, fit; fitting, seemly, decorous, appropriate, becoming, befitting.
2. moralizing, didactic, instructive, sententious, platitudinous; monitory, recommendatory, hortative, prescriptive, directive.
3. virtuous, chaste, pure, innocent, platonic; saintly, clean, spotless, immaculate, vestal, virginal; continent, temperate.
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4. teaching, lesson, commandment, rule, golden rule, canon, formula, formulary; platitude, dictum, precept, proverb, phylactery, saw; maxim, aphorism, gnome, epigram, adage, apothegm.
5. morals mores, ethos, customs, habits, manners; ethics, principles, standards, ideals; integrity, morality, probity, rectitude.
morale, n. state, mood, temper, humor, condition, attitude, emotion, feelings; spirit, confidence, hope, hopefulness, zeal; firmness, resolve, grit, mettle, will, backbone, stiff upper lip; heart, spunk, pluck, gameness, nerve, resolution.
morality, n. 1. uprightness, goodness, probity, rectitude, righteousness; honesty, integrity, honor, character, decency, respectability; responsibility, fidelity, faithfulness, trustworthiness, constancy, loyalty; equity, justice, principle, fair play, fairness, scrupulousness, justness; propriety, meetness, fittingness, decorum, seemliness, fitness, correctness, appropriateness.
2. chastity, virtue, piety, purity, innocence, pudicity; stainlessness, immaculateness, cleanness, spotlessness, virginality; continence, temperance.
3. ethics, morals, principles, standards, ideals; conscience, moral sense, inner monitor, scruples, sense of duty, good faith.
moralize, v. teach, instruct, tutor, point a moral, enlighten, inculcate, exhort; sermonize, preach, lecture, homilize, evangelize.
morass, n. slough, wash, wallow, squash, Brit. sough, Brit. Dial, sump, Scot. moss; marsh, fen, bog, swamp, quagmire; mire, quicksand, ooze, mud; moor, peat bog, flat, mud flat; everglade, forest swamp, taiga; swampland, marshland, fenland, bottomland, slobland, moorland.
morbid, adj. 1. somber, morose, pessimistic, blue, melancholic, atrabilious, hypochondriacal; depressed, despondent, dejected, out of sorts, Inf. in the dumps; gloomy, lugubrious, dreary, dull, glum.
