downhearted

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   sad, discouraged, or low in spirits

   Huck felt downhearted after learning what had happened at the house.

Formed from down and hearted, with down expressing a lowered emotional state. English has used the compound since the seventeenth century for someone whose courage or spirits have sunk.

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