lowhearted

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A form of low-hearted — Depressed, despondent, or dispirited

Scrabble 17

Meanings

adjectivelowhearted (comparative more lowhearted, superlative most lowhearted)

comparative more lowhearted · superlative most lowhearted

  1. alternativeAlternative form of low-hearted.

    She was worried about her daughter, too, and in pain often, and lowhearted.

    1985, Ursula K. Le Guin, Todd Barton, Margaret Chodos-Irvine, Always Coming Home, →ISBN, page 176
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    He straightway broke into bitter lamentations, such as I had never heard from him before, for he had always asserted that such wailing was for craven and lowhearted men.

    1982, Moses Hadas, transl., Complete Plays:Sophocles, →ISBN, page 10

    While therefore we may not be highminded, but fear; so we may not be too lowhearted, in the undervaluing of our condition.

    1838, Joseph Hall, Select pieces: from the practical and devotional writings of the eminently pious and learned Bishop Hall, page 195

Origin

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Chicago

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