Down In The Mouth

  

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Down In The Mouth

Definition: Down In The Mouth

Down In The Mouth

Adjective

1. 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 Mouth

Synonyms: blue (adj), depressed (adj), dispirited (adj), down(p) (adj), downcast (adj), downhearted (adj), low (adj), low-spirited (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Down In The Mouth

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Expression: Down In The Mouth

Expression using "down in the mouth": be down in the mouth. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Down In The Mouth

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

   

Romanian

  

plictisit (bored, browned off, tired), fãrã chef. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

удрученный (chap-fallen, crestfallen, crest-fallen, dead alive, dejected, dispirited, downcast, heartsick, woebegone), как в воду опущенный. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

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)

   

Spanish

  

deprimido (depressed, liverish). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Down In The Mouth

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-h-h-i-m-n-n-o-o-t-t-u-w"

-5 letters: whodunnit.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Expressions
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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