Applied with certain qualifications to a person: unhappy hook, unhappy wight. Obsolete.

One that droops; †one whose energy or spirit fails.

A disconsolate person.

One who desponds.

A person who mopes; someone given to prolonged spells of gloom or dejection.

A person who mopes; a person given up to a state of listless dejection and apathy.

One who desponds.

concrete. A wretched person or place.

(formerly) a person who hung up crape as a sign of mourning; hence U.S. slang, a killjoy; a pessimistic person; cf. crêpe-hanger n. at crêpe, n.…

a toy dog with drooping ears; also transferred, a gloomy person.

a gloomy person.

= crape-hanger n. at crape, n. compounds 3.

A pessimistic, gloomy, or habitually disconsolate person, likened to the Winnie-the-Pooh character Eeyore.