as in depressed
feeling unhappiness
downhearted because his best friend was taking a job out of state
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Recent Examples of downhearted
Despite the boos, Hogan wasn't completely downhearted.
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Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Newsweek, 5 Feb. 2025
Created by Sirius Cybernetics Corporation with GPP (Genuine People Personalities), Marvin is programmed to be unerringly downhearted.
—Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
Near the end of this downhearted saga, Esmeralda gives a speech, explanatory despite its poetic language, about the mistreatment of her people in this country — her fury even more palpable in her delivery than in the words themselves.
—Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 12 Apr. 2024
The sight of him sitting in his room, alone and downhearted, was too much.
—John Carlisle, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2023
Tarr, 67, a maker of severe, downhearted films that draw outside the lines of traditional storytelling, rarely comes to town.
—Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2023
Amid the downhearted social realism of the story, the director finds room for bright instances of childhood innocence and evocative dream sequences.
—Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2023
Like a downhearted Jacques Tati, comedy comes less from jokes than from people behaving in sad-but-relatable ways.
—Peter Opaskar, Ars Technica, 16 Feb. 2020
Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Newsweek, 5 Feb. 2025
Created by Sirius Cybernetics Corporation with GPP (Genuine People Personalities), Marvin is programmed to be unerringly downhearted.
—Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
Near the end of this downhearted saga, Esmeralda gives a speech, explanatory despite its poetic language, about the mistreatment of her people in this country — her fury even more palpable in her delivery than in the words themselves.
—Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 12 Apr. 2024
The sight of him sitting in his room, alone and downhearted, was too much.
—John Carlisle, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2023
Tarr, 67, a maker of severe, downhearted films that draw outside the lines of traditional storytelling, rarely comes to town.
—Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2023
Amid the downhearted social realism of the story, the director finds room for bright instances of childhood innocence and evocative dream sequences.
—Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2023
Like a downhearted Jacques Tati, comedy comes less from jokes than from people behaving in sad-but-relatable ways.
—Peter Opaskar, Ars Technica, 16 Feb. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for downhearted
Adjective
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Swelling in the hands and feet, getting sick frequently, feeling depressed, or having wounds that are slow to heal.—
Lorena Meouchi,
Vogue,
21 Mar. 2025
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The photographer asked me to act sad and depressed, to stop smiling.—
Gaylyn Henderson, MPH,
Health,
17 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Despite that success, Willard was unhappy with the program’s financial commitments.—
Taylor Lyons,
Baltimore Sun,
30 Mar. 2025
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If Amazon is unhappy with season 2 of Citadel and season 1 was not all the great to begin with, this idea that the series is going to launch into some popular, sprawling spy universe for the service seems in doubt.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
29 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Kwong grew up hearing stories of every kind about Manzanar—scary, sad, funny and infuriating.—
Rachel Ng,
Smithsonian Magazine,
27 Mar. 2025
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Yet, whatever the deal means for Paul, Weiss, its acquiescence to Trump marks a sad day for the legal profession—or what once was a profession, and is now just another business.—
Ruth Marcus,
New Yorker,
27 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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In the original visual, the Grammy winner plays a heartbroken character named Peaches who has all traces of her ex wiped from her hippocampus, an homage to Michel Gondry’s 2004 film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.—
Hannah Dailey,
Billboard,
26 Mar. 2025
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Seven Oaks parents ‘heartbroken’ Five Seven Oaks parents reached out to the Statesman to express disappointment with the removal of the bulletin board.—
Rose Evans,
Idaho Statesman,
25 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Many parents, in fact, report that the worst-case scenario is not when your whole family is ill but when the adults are miserable and the under-six cohort feels just fine.—
Kathryn Schulz,
New Yorker,
29 Mar. 2025
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Scratching will just make your rash worse and your life more miserable.—
Avery Hurt,
Discover Magazine,
29 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Still, although Lund isn’t going for any major tear-jerking moments, his movie invokes the melancholy sense of something important passing into the mists.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
14 Mar. 2025
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Its melancholy lyrics centered around a Greek myth in which the satyr, Marsyas, challenges the god Apollo to a music contest, and for his hubris, ends up skinned alive.—
Meaghan Garvey,
Pitchfork,
13 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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So now that the price is slashed in half, this is really a deal that can't be beat (sorry).—
John Mihaly,
PCMAG,
21 Mar. 2025
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Brienne—sorry, Lorne—and Mr. Drummond (RIP) and the sacrificial baby goat!—
Eliana Dockterman,
TIME,
21 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Give me the Bulldogs to pull the biggest upset of the second round.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
22 Mar. 2025
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In 2018, Ryan Odom led UMBC to the first ever No. 16 upset of a No. 1 in the NCAA Tournament.—
Adam Zagoria,
Forbes,
22 Mar. 2025
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“Downhearted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/downhearted. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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