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LOW SPIRITS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A state of mild depression

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("low spirits" is a kind of...):

depression (a mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "low spirits"):

dumps; mopes (an informal expression for a mildly depressed state)

Antonym:

high (a state of sustained elation)

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 Context examples: 

My rooms were engaged for twelve months certain: and though I still found them dreary of an evening, and the evenings long, I could settle down into a state of equable low spirits, and resign myself to coffee; which I seem, on looking back, to have taken by the gallon at about this period of my existence.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)