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Want of vivacity or spirit; prostration; dejection; depression.

To throw down; to bring to the ground; to prostrate; hence, to depress; to deject; to dispirit.

Affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy; dejected; as, a gloomy temper or countenance.

An exclamation of surprise, joy, dejection, uneasiness, weariness, etc. Shak.

a thing constructed; dominion, territory ruled over; subjection, state of being subject; dejection; abstraction.

Dejected; chopfallen.

Without dejection; cheerfully. "Seeming to bear it lightly." Shak.

Wanting strength or animation; depressed; dejected; as, low spirits; low in spirits.

Deficient in animation and courage; dejected; depressed; not sprightly. -- Low"-spir`it*ed*ness, n.

Dejected; sorrowful; downcast. [Obs.] "So piteous and so maat." Chaucer.

Cast down; dejected; overthrown; slain. [Obs.] When he saw them so piteous and so maat. Chaucer.

Given to melancholy; depressed; melancholy; dejected; unhappy. Just as the melancholic eye Sees fleets and armies in the sky. Prior.

One affected with melancholy or dejection. [Obs.] Glanvill.

To become gloomy or dejected in mind. Barrow.

Depression of spirits; a gloomy state continuing a considerable time; deep dejection; gloominess. Shak.

Dull; spiritless; dejected. -- Mop"ish*ly, adv. -- Mop"ish*ness, n.

d looks, Make mouths upon me when I turn my back. Shak. Down in the mouth, chapfallen; of dejected countenance; depressed; discouraged. [Obs. or Colloq.] -- Mouth friend, one who professes friendship insincerely. Shak. -- Mouth glass, a small mirror for inspecting the mouth or teeth. -- Mouth honor, honor given in wo…

Wanting in strength or vigor; feeble; dejected; as, poor health; poor spirits. "His genius . . . poor and cowardly." Bacon.

Dejection; depression. [Obs.] Wiseman.

The condition of being prostrate; great depression; lowness; dejection; as, a postration of spirits. "A sudden prostration of strength." Arbuthnot.