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bum vs mope

mope vs bum

bum and mope both are nouns.

bum is an adjective but mope is not an adjective.

bum and mope both are verbs.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
bum Yes Yes Yes No
mope Yes No Yes No
As nouns, mope is a hyponym of bum; that is, mope is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than bum:
  • bum: person who does no work
  • mope: someone who wastes time
Other hyponyms of bum include clock watcher, couch potato, dallier, dilly-dallier, dillydallier, lounger, dawdler, drone, laggard, lagger, poke, trailer, daydreamer, woolgatherer, goldbrick, good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, goof-off, ne'er-do-well, no-account, lazybones, lie-abed, slugabed, loon, shirker, slacker, slug, sluggard, spiv, sunbather, trifler, whittler.
bum (noun) mope (noun)
the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on someone who wastes time
a vagrant
a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible
person who does no work
bum (adjective) mope (adjective)
of very poor quality; flimsy
bum (verb) mope (verb)
ask for and get free; be a parasite be apathetic, gloomy, or dazed
be lazy or idle move around slowly and aimlessly
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