Definition
Sad or discouraged, especially as indicated by one's facial appearance.
In Context
- ""Is the old 'un here?" asked the robber. "Yes," replied the voice, "and precious down in the mouth he has been.""
- "Said Chrysler's tough, dynamic boss, K. T. Keller: "Don't get down in the mouth about business in this country. There is going to be a lot of money spent here.""
- ""He was down in the mouth and low on self-confidence," says his mother, Nina Engel."
Also Said As
- dejected
- disheartened
- dispirited
- 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