down in the mouth

Questions about down in the mouth

What is another word for down in the mouth?

It depends which down in the mouth you mean. In the sense “filled with melancholy and despondency”, the synonyms are gloomy, grim, blue, depressed, dispirited, down, downcast, downhearted, low, low-spirited. Across all 1 sense there are 10 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of down in the mouth?

WordNet records no antonym for down in the mouth. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for down in the mouth come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of down in the mouth

• Full entry for down in the mouthAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for down in the mouthWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.