in low spirits

1. 1.

   in a dejected manner

   “when she came back Sophie and Esther were sitting dejectedly in the kitchen”

   Synonymsdejectedly

Questions about in low spirits

What does in low spirits mean?

in low spirits means "in a dejected manner".

What is another word for in low spirits?

Close synonyms include dejectedly. 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 in low spirits a common word?

in low spirits 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.