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downhearted

adj · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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adj

Meaning 1

Sad, discouraged, in low spirits, unhappy, having no hope

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • Fans must not be downhearted even though we lost.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: low-spirited, unhappy, atrabiliary, atrabilious, blitheless, dispirited, blue, bummed out, chapfallen, cheerless, chopfallen, crestfallen, cut up, damp, dejected, depressed, despondent, disgruntled, disconsolate, disheartened, dismal, doleful, dolesome, down, down in the dumps, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, downsome, dull, elegiac, elegious, forlorn, gloomy, glum, grief-stricken, grieving, heavy-hearted, heartsore, heartsick, inconsolable, infelicitous, jawfallen, joyless, lachrymose, lamentful, low, lugubrious, lumpish, melancholic, melancholy, miserable, moody, mopey, morose, mournful, passionate, plaintive, Plutonian, Plutonic, querulous, ruthful, sad, saddened, saturnine, shattered, solemn, sombre, sorrowful, sorrow-ridden, sorrowsome, spiritless, sullen, threnetic, threnetical, triste, tristful, uncheerful, uncheery, unconsolable, unlively, wistful, woe, woebegone, woeful, wretched

Antonyms: none provided

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adjective satellite

Meaning 2

filled with melancholy and despondency

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • gloomy at the thought of what he had to face
  • gloomy predictions
  • a gloomy silence
  • took a grim view of the economy
  • the darkening mood
  • lonely and blue in a strange city
  • depressed by the loss of his job
  • a dispirited and resigned expression on her face
  • downcast after his defeat
  • feeling discouraged and downhearted

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: gloomy, grim, blue, depressed, dispirited, down(p), downcast, down in the mouth, low, low-spirited

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

From down + hearted.

Across languages

Translations

11 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Bulgarian: отчаян (otčajan) — sad or discouraged
  • Bulgarian: обезверен (obezveren) — sad or discouraged
  • German: niedergeschlagen — sad or discouraged
  • Hungarian: csüggedt — sad or discouraged
  • Latin: dēiectus — sad or discouraged
  • Old Church Slavonic: оунꙑлъ (unylŭ) — sad or discouraged
  • Welsh: pendrwm — sad or discouraged
  • Welsh: penisel — sad or discouraged
  • Welsh: pendrist — sad or discouraged
  • Welsh: digalon — sad or discouraged
  • Welsh: trist — sad or discouraged