hangdog

¹hang·dog

adj \ˈhaŋ-ˌdȯg\

Definition of HANGDOG

1

: sad, dejected

2

: sheepish

Examples of HANGDOG

1. He came home with a hangdog expression on his face.
2. <“Why do you look so hangdog today?” she asked>

First Known Use of HANGDOG

1677

Related to HANGDOG

Synonyms: bad, blue, brokenhearted, cast down, crestfallen, dejected, depressed, despondent, disconsolate, doleful, down, downcast, downhearted, down in the mouth, droopy, forlorn, gloomy, glum, sad, heartbroken, heartsick, heartsore, heavyhearted, inconsolable, joyless, low, low-spirited, melancholic, melancholy, miserable, mournful, saddened, sorrowful, sorry, unhappy, woebegone, woeful, wretched

Antonyms: blissful, buoyant, buoyed, cheerful, cheery, chipper, delighted, glad, gladdened, gladsome, gleeful, happy, joyful, joyous, jubilant, sunny, upbeat

Related Words: aggrieved, distressed, troubled, uneasy, unquiet, upset, worried; despairing, hopeless, sunk; disappointed, discouraged, disheartened, dispirited; suicidal; dolorous, lachrymose, lugubrious, plaintive, tearful; regretful, rueful; agonized, anguished, grieving, wailing, weeping; black, bleak, cheerless, comfortless, dark, darkening, depressing, desolate, dismal, drear, dreary, elegiac (also elegiacal), funereal, gray (also grey), morbid, morose, murky, saturnine, somber (or sombre), sullen

Near Antonyms: ecstatic, elated, enraptured, entranced, euphoric, exhilarated, exuberant, exultant, overjoyed, rapturous, rhapsodic (also rhapsodical); blithe, blithesome, jocose, jocular, jocund, jolly, jovial, lightsome, merry, mirthful; excited, thrilled; hopeful, optimistic, rosy, sanguine; encouraged, heartened; animated, bouncing, energetic, frisky, jaunty, lively, peppy, perky, spirited, sprightful, sprightly, springy, vital, vivacious, zippy; content, gratified, pleased, satisfied; beaming, grinning, laughing, smiling; boon, carefree, careless, cavalier, devil-may-care, easygoing, happy-go-lucky, insouciant, lighthearted, unconcerned

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Rhymes with HANGDOG

backlog, bandog, befog, bird dog, bird-dog, bulldog, bullfrog, corn dog, coydog, defog, eclogue, feed dog, firedog, gas log, groundhog, guide dog, gundog, hedgehog, hotdog, ice fog, lapdog, leapfrog, prologue, putlog, pye-dog, quahog, red dog, road hog, sandhog, sea dog, sheepdog, sled dog, sun dog, top dog, tree frog, warthog, watchdog, Weblog, whole-hog, wild dog, wolf dog, wood frog, Yule log