vverb.emotionlower someone's spirits; make downheartedSynset:cast down deject demoralise demoralize depress dismay dispirit get down
Examples:- These news depressed her
- The bad state of her child's health demoralizes her
Antonyms:elate
Derivationally Related Form:dejectiondemoralisationdepressantdismaydemoralization
Hypernyms:discourage
Inherited Hypernyms:depressdiscourage
Direct Hyponyms:chill
Full Troponyms:chill
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s somebody | Something ---s somebody | The performance is likely to --- Sue (apply to: get down, dismay) | The bad news will --- him (apply to: deject, dismay, dispirit, depress, demoralize)
adj satadj.allmarked by low spirits; showing no enthusiasmSynset:listless
Examples:- a dispirited and divided Party
- reacted to the crisis with listless resignation
Antonyms:spirited
Derivationally Related Form:dispiritednesslistlessness
Inherited Hypernyms:dispirited
Similar to:spiritless
adj satadj.allfilled with melancholy and despondencySynset:blue depressed down down in the mouth downcast downhearted gloomy grim low low-spirited
Examples:- 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
Antonyms:elated
Derivationally Related Form:downheartednessdispiritednesslow-spiritednesslownessgloominess
Inherited Hypernyms:gloomy
Similar to:dejected