Downhearted

Definition: Downhearted

Downhearted

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".

Date "downhearted" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references)

Synonyms: Downhearted

Synonyms: blue (adj), depressed (adj), dispirited (adj), down in the mouth (adj), down(p) (adj), downcast (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.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Downhearted

English words defined with "downhearted": cast down ♦ deject, demoralise, demoralize, depress, dismay, dispirit ♦ get down. (references)

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Downhearted Duckling (1954)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Music	Downhearted Blues (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Play	Caption
	Sigh; blue; blue funk; bummed out; cast down; crestfallen; crummy; dejected; despondent; destroyed; disconsolate; dispirited; down; downcast; downhearted; dragged; fed up; glum; grim; hurting; in pain; let down; low; low down; low-spirited; lugubrious; me.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Downhearted" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 57.14% of the time. "Downhearted" is used about 21 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past participle)	57.14%	12	101,599
Adjective (general or positive)	23.81%	5	157,705
Lexical Verb (past tense)	19.05%	4	175,879
Total	100.00%	21	N/A

Language		Translations for "downhearted"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Czech		sklíèený (blue, crest-fallen, dejected, depressed, despondent, disconsolate, gloomy, glum, lower-spirited, low-spirited, mopish, stricken, unhappy). (various references)

French		déprimé, découragé (downcast, down-hearted). (various references)

German		niedergeschlagenen. (various references)

Greek		κακόκεφοσ (gloomy). (various references)

Hebrew		עצוב (design, fashioning, formation, forming, formulation, lugubrious, modeling, molding, morose, sad, shaping, sorrowful, sullen, unhappy, woeful). (various references)

Hungarian		elcsüggedt (disheartened, dispirited, down-hearted). (various references)

Indonesian		tawar hati, masygul (sad). (various references)

Italian		depresso (blue, blue-deviled, blue-devilled, depressed, dispirited, down, downcast, dull, glum, heartsick, low, moped), scoraggiato (despondent, disheartened, dispirited), abbattuto (beaten, crestfallen, dejected, depressed, despondent, dispirited, down, downcast, glum, low, moped, prostrate). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		遣る瀬無い (cheerless, disconsolate, dreary, helpless, miserable), 遣る瀬ない (cheerless, disconsolate, dreary, helpless, miserable). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		やるせない (cheerless, disconsolate, dreary, helpless, miserable). (various references)

Pig Latin		ownheartedday

Russian		унылый (bleak, chap-fallen, cheerless, crest-fallen, depressed, depressing, despondent, downcast, down-hearted, dumpy, gloomy, godforsaken, heavy-hearted, howling, low-spirited, mopish, rueful, somber, sombre). (various references)

Spanish		desanimado (cheerless, dejected, depressed, despondent, discouraged), decaído (crestfallen, depressed, discouraged, raddled, sagging, weak). (various references)

Swedish		modstulen, missmodig (down-hearted). (various references)

Thai		ท้อแท้ (frustrated). (various references)

Turkish		morali bozuk (blue, despondent, down, low-spirited, on the downbeat), cesareti kırılmış, üzgün (afflicted, aggrieved, bleak, careworn, chagrined, crestfallen, dejected, downcast, glum, heartsick, heartsore, heavy-hearted, low-spirited, pained, regretful, rueful, sad, sick at heart, sorrowful, sorry, stricken, tearful, troubled, unhappy, upset, worried). (various references)

Ukrainian		занепалий духом (crestfallen, droopy). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "downhearted": downheartedly, downheartedness, downheartednesses. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-e-h-n-o-r-t-w"
	-2 letters: dethroned, handwrote, towheaded.
	-3 letters: adherend, adherent, danewort, dehorned, dehorted, dethrone, hardened, headnote, headword, neatherd, teardown, threaded, threnode, wandered, wondered, wreathed, wreathen.
	-4 letters: adhered, adorned, another, denoted, derated, dewater, donated, dowered, drowned, earthed, earthen, endowed, endower, erodent, hearted, hearten, hoarded, nowhere, redated, redhead, reendow, tarweed, thereon, thorned, thrawed, throned, towered, towhead, treaded, trended, trodden.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-d-e-e-h-n-o-r-t-w"
	+2 letters: downheartedly.
	+4 letters: downheartedness.
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