bummed

adjective

ˈbəmd 

variants or bummed out

US, informal

: in low spirits : unhappy, depressed, disappointed

Morale at Mirage is practically nonexistent. Having been extended ninety days more has everyone terminally bummed.

—Dick Runels

I was so bummed. I was going to have to relive the sixties.

—Polly Frost

The awful truth about their past leaves them pretty bummed out …

—Michael Sauter

Examples of bummed in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

This social animosity, combined with plagues and attempted presidential coups and [cue worst-of-show super-cut from 2016 to the present], may have left Shyamalan a little bummed about our prospects as a species. —David Fear, Rolling Stone, 1 Feb. 2023

From Washington DC to Boston, there has been below normal snowfall so far this season, leaving snow lovers bummed. —Jennifer Gray, CNN, 16 Jan. 2023

Pearl Jam were not immune from feeling royally bummed out on Thursday night (Sept. 8) during their show at Toronto’s Scotiabank Center. —Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 9 Sep. 2022

That’s why taking this summer was so important to me, even though a lot of people were kind of bummed because I was supposed to do a couple of things. —Elizabeth Wagmeister, Variety, 8 Sep. 2022

She gets bummed when the astrology posts use pictures from NASA’s Mariner 10 spacecraft instead. —Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 28 May 2022

But the Wave, to their credit, seemed bummed by their performance Sunday in Seattle. —Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 May 2022

Adrian Belew is still bummed about not being asked to be part of the 2013 re-formation. —David Browne, Rolling Stone, 18 Mar. 2022

Hopkins has dealt with a bummed hamstring which limited his playing time in that same game. —Dana Scott, The Arizona Republic, 31 Oct. 2021

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Word History

First Known Use

1970, in the meaning defined above

Phrases Containing bummed

• bummed out

• bummed out