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Definition: Down In The Mouth |
Down In The MouthAdjective1. Low in spirits; "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". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Down In The MouthSynonyms: blue (adj), depressed (adj), dispirited (adj), down(p) (adj), downcast (adj), downhearted (adj), low (adj), low-spirited (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Dejection | Melancholy as a gib cat; oppressed with melancholy, a prey to melancholy; downcast, downhearted; down in the mouth, down in one;s luck; heavy-hearted; in the dumps, down in the dumps, in the suds, in the sulks, in the doldrums; in doleful dumps, in bad humor; sullen; mumpish, dumpish, mopish, moping; moody, glum; sulky; (discontented); out of sorts, out of humor, out of heart, out of spirits; ill at ease, low spirited, in low spirits, a cup too low; weary; discouraged, disheartened; desponding; chapfallen, chopfallen, jaw fallen, crest fallen. |
Discontent | Repining; Verb: regretful; down in the mouth; (dejected). |
Humility | Humbled; Verb: bowed down, resigned; abashed, ashamed, dashed; out of countenance; down in the mouth; down on one's knees, down on one's marrowbones, down on one's uppers; humbled in the dust, browbeaten; chapfallen, crestfallen; dumfoundered. flabbergasted. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Expression using "down in the mouth": be down in the mouth. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "down in the mouth"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | محزون (distressed, down-hearted, low-spirited). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | Омърлушен, Унил (Moody). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | deprimovaný (dejected, depressed, dispirited), ztrápený (troubled), Ubohý (crappy, deplorable, dingy, dismal, grotty, miserable, paltry, pitiable, poor, sleazy, wretched). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | tout triste, abattu (downcast, down-hearted). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | deprimiert sein (be down in the mouth), niedergeschlagen sein (be down in the mouth, to be cut up, to be in low spirits, to feel low). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | φαίνομαι άκεφος (look down in the mouth). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מ"וכ"ך (crestfallen, desolate, despondent, doldrums, dumpy, gloomy, glum, melancholy, somber), מ"וכא (blue, dejected, depressed, down, gloomy, hypochondriac, liverish, morbid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | Szomorú (blue, cheerless, disconsolate, dismal, distressed, doleful, drear, dreary, face as long as a fiddle, grievous, heart broken, joyless, long-faced, melancholy, mirthless, mopish, mournful, pained, piteous, pitiable, plaintive, sad, sorrowful, to be in the dumps, tristful), Levert (be cast down, crestfallen, crest-fallen, dejected, depressed, despondent, downcast, dumpish, heavy-hearted, lethargic, overcast, prostrate, subdued, to be in low spirits, to be in poor spirits, to be out of spirits, to feel blue, woebegone, yellow), Lehangolt (dejected, depressed, disconcerted, distressed, downcast, down-hearted, have the hip, have the hump, low, low-spirited, out of spirits, overcast, to be in low spirits, to be in poor spirits, to be in the dumps, to be out of spirits, to desolate, to feel low). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ownday inay ethay outhmay plictisit (bored, browned off, tired), fãrã chef. (various references) удрученный (chap-fallen, crestfallen, crest-fallen, dead alive, dejected, dispirited, downcast, heartsick, woebegone), как в воду опущенный. (various references) potišten (chap-fallen, crestfallen, crest-fallen, dejected, depressed, despondent, dispirited, down-hearted, hangdog, heavy-laden, moody, mopish, unhappy), nesrećan (calamitous, fortuneless, graceless, inauspicious, infelicitous, miserable, unchancy, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky). (various references) deprimido (depressed, liverish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Words within the letters "d-e-h-h-i-m-n-n-o-o-t-t-u-w" | |
-5 letters: whodunnit. | |
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