as in unhappy
feeling unhappiness the captain tried to cheer up her low-spirited teammates after their big loss

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for low-spirited
Adjective
  • My research team works hard to keep the email addresses up to date, but executives keep changing their addresses to avoid having to deal with unhappy customers.
    Christopher Elliott, Mercury News, 10 Sep. 2025
  • But few seemed to leave unhappy.
    Jonathan Hawkins, CNN Money, 10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Because that’s the case, their actual margin opportunity is depressed.
    Evan Clark, Footwear News, 15 Sep. 2025
  • This might be because people are a bit depressed.
    Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 14 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • This one is trickier and sadder to think about.
    Brian Welk, IndieWire, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Composite image created by Newsweek shows two older people looking worried and a piggy bank with a sad face on its side.
    Aliss Higham, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Meanwhile, Jeremiah is miserable, has nowhere to live, and is trying to find meaning through meaningless flings.
    Olivia Petter, Vogue, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The Arizona Cardinals and head coach Jonathan Gannon made life miserable for Carolina Panthers quarterback Bryce Young and head coach Dave Canales, from start to finish, Sunday at State Farm Stadium.
    DIAMOND VENCES, Charlotte Observer, 14 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • And utterly heartbroken for Charlie’s young family.
    Amanda Castro Gabe Whisnant Anna Commander Toby Meyjes Shane Croucher John Feng Joshua Rhett Miller, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The woman noted that canceling the shower has left her heartbroken.
    Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 9 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Some gags land, others don’t, and the script’s sudden bursts of melancholy dependably catch you in the gut.
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The same can be said of Mescal, who’s already parlayed playing men of muscular physique and melancholy dispositions into above-the-title movie stardom.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • But that’s actually a bad thing for a couple reasons.
    Jeff Fedotin, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • But worse than the poverty was the verbal and physical abuse from his father.
    John Blake, CNN Money, 14 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The addition of the Warlock-like floaty jump (sorry, there are just a lot of Destiny things) is very good, as is the base level double jump all characters have.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Of course, as manager Mike Shildt sometimes says, no one’s going to feel sorry for the Padres.
    Dennis Lin, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2025
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“Low-spirited.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/low-spirited. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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