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down in the mouth
Thesaurus| Adj. | 1.down in the mouth - filled with melancholy and despondency ; "gloomy at the thought of what he had to face"; "gloomy predictions"; "a gloomy silence"; "took a grim view of the economy"; "the darkening mood"; "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"downhearted, low-spirited, downcast, gloomy, dispirited, blue, depressed, grim, down, lowdejected - affected or marked by low spirits; "is dejected but trying to look cheerful" |
down in the mouth
down in the mouthVisibly sad or depressed. Molly's been moping around all week, and I have no idea why she's so down in the mouth. Rob has been down in the mouth ever since Gloria broke up with him.See also: down, mouthdown in the mouth BRITISH, INFORMALIf you are down in the mouth, you feel unhappy. George seemed a bit down in the mouth yesterday. The bad news left her feeling really down in the mouth.See also: down, mouthdown in the mouth (of a person or their expression) unhappy or dejected. informalSee also: down, mouthdown in the ˈmouth (informal) unhappy and depressed: Why is she looking so down in the mouth?See also: down, mouthdown in the mouthSad, unhappy. The term refers to a mournful facial expression, with the corners of the mouth drawn down. Known by the mid-seventeenth century, it appears in print in Bishop Joseph Hall’s Cases of Conscience (1649): “The Roman Orator was down in the mouth, finding himselfs thus cheated by the moneychanger.” Occasionally it appeared with at instead of in (“He’ll never more be down-at-mouth,” Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Dante and His Circle, 1850), a usage that is now obsolete. See also down in the dumps. See also: down, mouthdown in the mouth
Related to down in the mouth: Down in the DumpsSynonyms for down in the mouthadj filled with melancholy and despondencySynonyms- downhearted
- low-spirited
- downcast
- gloomy
- dispirited
- blue
- depressed
- grim
- down
- low
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