filled with melancholy and despondency ; "gloomy at the
thought of what he had to face"; "gloomy predictions"; "a gloomy silence"; "took a grim view of the economy"; "the darkening mood"; "lonely and blue in a strange city"; "depressed by the loss of his job"; "a dispirited and resigned expression on her face"; "downcast after his defeat"; "feeling discouraged and downhearted" Synonym(s):gloomy, grim, blue, depressed, dispirited, down(p), downcast, downhearted, down in the mouth, low, low-spirited
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Downhearted \Down"heart`ed\, a.
Dejected; low-spirited.