What does mope-eyed mean?
Mope-eyed means (archaic) short-sighted.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
(archaic) short-sighted.
What a mope-eyed ass was I, I could not know her!
Don't grope around in the dark like the foolish, mope-eyed man - playing “blind man's-buff”, as it were, with your business interests
Use mope-eyed when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Mope-eyed means (archaic) short-sighted.
Common synonyms include purblind.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
What a mope-eyed ass was I, I could not know her!
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