Synonyms of mopey

mopey

adjective

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• pouting
• irritable
• sullen
• sulky
• pouty
• glum
• surly
• brooding
• morose
• dour
• sensitive
• petulant
• gloomy
• grouchy
• grumpy
• crabby
• cross
• peevish
• snappish
• crotchety
• irascible
• snarky
• testy
• choleric
• pettish
• waspish
• cranky
• moping
• ornery
• raspy
• cantankerous
• snippy
• dyspeptic
• disagreeable
• bilious
• short-tempered
• tetchy
• ratty
• prickly
• perverse
• bearish
• huffy
• quick-tempered
• temperamental
• snippety
• snappy
• ill-tempered
• touchy
• ill-humored
• ill-natured
• thin-skinned

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• cheerful
• sociable
• cheery
• sunny
• perky
• good-natured
• carefree
• easygoing
• relaxed
• good-humored
• good-tempered
• gladsome
• happy-go-lucky

Example Sentences

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