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Definition of Down in the mouth
1. Adjective. Filled with melancholy and despondency. "Feeling discouraged and downhearted"
Similar to: Dejected
Derivative terms: Dispiritedness, Downheartedness, Gloominess, Gloominess, Lowness, Low-spiritedness
Definition of Down in the mouth
1. Adjective. (idiomatic) Sad or discouraged, especially as indicated by one's facial appearance. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Down In The Mouth
Literary usage of Down in the mouth
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"down in the mouth. (See under DOWN.) His mouth им» made, he was trained or reduced
to obedience, like a horse trained to the bit. ..."
2. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"1856 No matter, howbeit, for legends like these 1856 My heart leaped into my
gullet the minute I saw him. I felt down in the mouth, ..."
3. A Brief Historical Relation of State Affairs, from September 1678 to April 1714 by Narcissus Luttrell (1857)
"These things make some persons down in the mouth, fearing the effects of these
two being sheriffs, and scruple not to say to what end they were sett up; ..."
4. Citizen, Jr. by Clara Ewing Espey (1922)
"LESSON 19 down in the mouth A DISCOURAGED citizen's face isn't on straight.
It is all pulled out of shape. The eyes are dull and look as if the tears would ..."
5. A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous Or Parallel Expressions by Richard Soule, George Holmes Howison (1891)
"Dejected, disheartened, depressed, discouraged, down-hearted, downcast, despondent,
cast down, crestfallen, chapfallen, down in the mouth. ..."
6. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1826)
"Well, howsomever, to shorten the matter : after I comes up, as down in the mouth
as a midshipman's dough-boy, I was clapt into limbo, togs and all, ..."
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