downhearted (Meaning)
downhearted (s)
filled with melancholy and despondency
downhearted (a.)
Dejected; low-spirited.
Synonyms & Antonyms of downhearted
Synonyms:
Antonyms:
- glad
- cheery
- hopeful
- enraptured
- optimistic
- exultant
- buoyant
- sunny
- cheerful
- jubilant
- happy
- joyous
- joyful
- happy
- delighted
- sunny
- optimistic
- blissful
- buoyant
- joyful
- ecstatic
- chipper
- jolly
- jovial
- ecstatic
- gleeful
- gleeful
- chipper
- glad
- hopeful
- rapturous
- jovial
- blissful
- merry
- cheerful
- excited
- enraptured
- joyous
- upbeat
- exuberant
- merry
- exuberant
- jolly
- rapturous
- cheery
- excited
- jubilant
- buoyed
- upbeat
- buoyed
- euphoric
- exultant
- delighted
- euphoric
Synonyms:
- glum
- gloomy
- melancholic
- sorrowful
- uneasy
- down
- forlorn
- heavyhearted
- woebegone
- mournful
- woeful
- wretched
- down in the mouth
- despondent
- suicidal
- doleful
- heartsore
- downcast
- troubled
- inconsolable
- dejected
- distressed
- hopeless
- crestfallen
- depressing
- heartsick
- blue
- discouraged
- saddened
- disappointed
- low-spirited
- hangdog
- joyless
- disconsolate
- brokenhearted
- droopy
Antonyms:
- spirited
- gladsome
- jocund
- lightsome
- exhilarated
- jocular
- sprightly
- lively
- content
- vivacious
- elated
- spirited
- blithesome
- frisky
- encouraged
- elated
- blithe
- blithe
- mirthful
- sanguine
- vivacious
- rosy
- satisfied
- rhapsodical
- energetic
- thrilled
- perky
- entranced
- overjoyed
- perky
- rhapsodical
- energetic
- exhilarated
- entranced
- blithesome
- animated
- jocose
- frisky
- gladdened
- satisfied
- encouraged
- thrilled
- rhapsodic
- sprightly
- jocund
- animated
- vital
- content
- sanguine
- smiling
- gladdened
- jocular
- pleased
- jocose
- lively
- rhapsodic
- pleased
- gladsome
- smiling
- vital
- rosy
- mirthful
- lightsome
- overjoyed
Synonyms:
- aggrieved
- drear
- lachrymose
- cast down
- tearful
- bleak
- grieving
- dreary
- gray
- dismal
- somber
- disheartened
- wailing
- cheerless
- grey
- agonized
- saturnine
- low
- lugubrious
- anguished
- desolate
- sullen
- weeping
- rueful
- regretful
- unquiet
- despairing
- sombre
- dispirited
- sunk
- comfortless
- morbid
- morose
- elegiac
- plaintive
- dolorous
- dark
Antonyms:
- beaming
- laughing
- cavalier
- unconcerned
- peppy
- springy
- careless
- laughing
- bouncing
- peppy
- zippy
- insouciant
- gratified
- grinning
- easygoing
- bouncing
- zippy
- unconcerned
- beaming
- lighthearted
- heartened
- boon
- gratified
- lighthearted
- grinning
- jaunty
- carefree
- springy
- insouciant
- jaunty
- carefree
- careless
- cavalier
- heartened
- boon
- easygoing
downhearted Sentence Examples
- The team was downhearted after losing the championship game.
- She was downhearted when she saw the state of her garden after the storm.
- The travelers were downhearted when they realized they had crossed the wrong mountain pass.
- The child was downhearted when he couldn't find his favorite toy.
- The employee was downhearted when he was not promoted to the position he had applied for.
- The patient was downhearted when he was told that his treatment was not successful.
- The artist was downhearted when the critics panned his latest work.
- The politician was downhearted when he lost the election.
- The parent was downhearted when their child got into trouble at school.
- The investor was downhearted when the stock market crashed.
FAQs About the word downhearted
filled with melancholy and despondencyDejected; low-spirited.
heartbroken, sad, worried, bad, melancholy, sorry, unhappy,depressed, miserable, upset
glad, cheery, hopeful, enraptured, optimistic, exultant, buoyant, sunny, cheerful, jubilant
The team was downhearted after losing the championship game.
She was downhearted when she saw the state of her garden after the storm.
The travelers were downhearted when they realized they had crossed the wrong mountain pass.
The child was downhearted when he couldn't find his favorite toy.
