Definition
Sad; lacking engagement or enthusiasm.
Origins
From dump “a dull, gloomy state of the mind.”
In Context
- ""You've got down in the dumps and can't see what's sensible and to your own advantage.""
- ""Being out of work sometimes makes you feel down in the dumps and being out here with my buddies helps.""
Also Said As
- crestfallen
- listless
- low-spirited
- 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
- low-spirited
- lugubrious
- lumpish
- melancholic
- melancholy
- miserable
- moody
- mopey
- morose
- mournful
- passionate
- plaintive
- Plutonian
- Plutonic
- querulous
- sad
- saddened
- saturnine
- shattered
- solemn
- sombre
- sorrowful
- sorrow-ridden
- sorrowsome
- spiritless
- sullen
- threnetic
- threnetical
- triste
- tristful
- uncheerful
- uncheery
- unconsolable
- unhappy
- unlively
- wistful
- woe
- woebegone
- woeful
- wretched