Synonyms of hangdog

hangdog

adjective

ˈhaŋ-ˌdȯg 

as in sad

feeling unhappiness

"Why do you look so hangdog today?" she asked

Synonyms & Similar Words

• sad
• depressed
• unhappy
• heartbroken
• miserable
• melancholy
• bad
• sorry
• woebegone
• mournful
• upset
• disconsolate
• worried
• downcast
• dejected
• glum
• doleful
• sorrowful
• crestfallen
• hopeless
• forlorn
• despondent
• joyless
• melancholic
• uneasy
• troubled
• disappointed
• gloomy
• droopy
• woeful
• heartsick
• wretched
• inconsolable
• blue
• depressing
• brokenhearted
• distressed
• saddened
• down
• suicidal
• low-spirited
• downhearted
• low
• heavyhearted
• down in the mouth
• heartsore
• despairing
• discouraged
• tearful
• cast down
• aggrieved
• dispirited
• sunk
• grieving
• lugubrious
• plaintive
• bleak
• weeping
• somber
• anguished
• unquiet
• sullen
• saturnine
• dolorous
• rueful
• morose
• lachrymose
• regretful
• cheerless
• desolate
• morbid
• disheartened
• agonized
• wailing
• gray
• elegiac
• dismal
• funereal
• dark
• dreary
• comfortless
• darkening
• black
• drear
• murky

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• cheerful
• gleeful
• joyous
• cheery
• joyful
• buoyant
• jubilant
• exuberant
• happy
• upbeat
• blissful
• sunny
• glad
• exultant
• jovial
• buoyed
• chipper
• rapturous
• jolly
• delighted
• ecstatic
• mirthful
• merry
• euphoric
• jocular
• blithe
• rhapsodic
• enraptured
• optimistic
• jocose
• excited
• hopeful
• sanguine
• rosy
• elated
• energetic
• exhilarated
• jaunty
• spirited
• lively
• smiling
• gladsome
• jocund
• perky
• blithesome
• overjoyed
• gladdened
• vivacious
• animated
• sprightly
• content
• entranced
• vital
• bouncing
• lightsome
• frisky
• laughing
• encouraged
• satisfied
• peppy
• springy
• grinning
• careless
• pleased
• carefree
• easygoing
• insouciant
• zippy
• unconcerned
• thrilled
• gratified
• cavalier
• lighthearted
• heartened
• boon
• beaming
• sprightful
• happy-go-lucky
• devil-may-care

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of hangdog

His Mickey is pleasantly mumbly, with a hangdog mien that’s often crosscut with a don’t-underestimate-me swagger. — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 16 May 2022

Vic accepts his highly public and private humiliation with hangdog equanimity. — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 18 Mar. 2022

Segel earns some empathy as a hangdog Everyman, though his backstory remains such a deliberate blank that any insight is mostly gleaned from his blundering missteps and low-simmering misery. — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 18 Mar. 2022

Another slip here is the casting of Effros in the lead role of Martin, a hangdog techie who travels from New York to Cape Cod to settle the estate of his late, estranged dad, Kenneth. — Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2022