LOW-SPIRITED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does low-spirited mean? 

• LOW-SPIRITED (adjective)
  The adjective LOW-SPIRITED has 1 sense:

1. filled with melancholy and despondency

  Familiarity information: LOW-SPIRITED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOW-SPIRITED (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:

low-spiritedness (a feeling of low spirits)

 Context examples 

Did you not think him dreadful low-spirited when he was at Barton?

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

I feel strangely sad and low-spirited to-day.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

“Oh! my eye!” he said, looking very low-spirited, “I am sorry for that.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

She was audaciously prejudiced in my favour, and quite unable to understand why I should have any misgivings, or be low-spirited about it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I am too miserable, too low-spirited, too sick of the world and all in it, including life itself, that I would not care if I heard this moment the flapping of the wings of the angel of death.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Happily, too, the greater part of the boys came back low-spirited, and were not so boisterous at my expense as I had expected.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I was greatly elated by these orders; but my heart smote me for my selfishness, when I witnessed their effect on Mr. Dick, who was so low-spirited at the prospect of our separation, and played so ill in consequence, that my aunt, after giving him several admonitory raps on the knuckles with her dice-box, shut up the board, and declined to play with him any more.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)