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DOWNHEARTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does downhearted mean? 

DOWNHEARTED (adjective)
  The adjective DOWNHEARTED has 1 sense:

1. filled with melancholy and despondencyplay

  Familiarity information: DOWNHEARTED used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


DOWNHEARTED (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Filled with melancholy and despondency

Synonyms:

blue; depressed; dispirited; down; down in the mouth; downcast; downhearted; gloomy; grim; low; low-spirited

Context example:

feeling discouraged and downhearted

Similar:

dejected (affected or marked by low spirits)

Derivation:

downheartedness (a feeling of low spirits)


 Context examples 


A question about whether an individual feels or felt downhearted and blue.

(Have You Felt Downhearted and Blue, NCI Thesaurus)

Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) Do you often feel downhearted and blue?

(GDS - Feel Downhearted and Blue, NCI Thesaurus)

And as for number two, and why I made a bargain—well, you came crawling on your knees to me to make it—on your knees you came, you was that downhearted—and you'd have starved too if I hadn't—but that's a trifle!

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

In the morning he was downhearted again, and would have sustained himself by giving me all the money he had in his possession, gold and silver too, if my aunt had not interposed, and limited the gift to five shillings, which, at his earnest petition, were afterwards increased to ten.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)



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