down in the mouth

1. 1.

   filled with melancholy and despondency

   “gloomy at the thought of what he had to face”

   “gloomy predictions”

   “a gloomy silence”

   “took a grim view of the economy”

   “the darkening mood”

   “lonely and blue in a strange city”

   “depressed by the loss of his job”

   “a dispirited and resigned expression on her face”

   “downcast after his defeat”

   “feeling discouraged and downhearted”

   Synonymsgloomygrimbluedepresseddispiriteddowndowncastdownheartedlowlow-spirited

   Similardejected

Questions about down in the mouth

What does down in the mouth mean?

down in the mouth means "filled with melancholy and despondency".

What is another word for down in the mouth?

Close synonyms include gloomy, grim, blue, depressed, dispirited. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is down in the mouth a common word?

down in the mouth is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.