low spirits

Noun

Meaning

a state of mild depression

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

blue devils blues depression melancholia despair funk sadness pessimism gloom despondency discouragement dejection doldrums hypochondria lowness
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Antonyms

MDMA beatitude high heaven nasal tenor
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Hypernyms

depression

Hyponyms

dumps mopes

Examples

If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up. Anna Akhmatova

He suffered ulcerous sores in his mouth, pain troubled his stomach and intestines, and he struggled with increasingly low spirits. Source: Internet

Later, Dr. McCoy joins Kirk on his birthday; seeing Kirk in low spirits, the doctor advises Kirk to get a new command and not grow old behind a desk. Source: Internet

"The high and low spirits of Transeurasian language studies" in Johanson and Robbeets (2010), 7–20. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

low spearwort low speed, high drag low sperm concentration low St Andrew's cross low standard low status