Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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Low-spirited \Low"-spir`it*ed\, a. Deficient in animation and courage; dejected; depressed; dispirited; not sprightly.
Syn: depressed, dispirited, down(predicate), downcast, downhearted, low. [1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5] -- Low"-spir`it*ed*ness, n.
Wiktionary
a. disheartened.
WordNet
adj. low in spirits; "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" [syn: blue, depressed, dispirited, down(p), downcast, downhearted, down in the mouth, low]
Usage examples of "low-spirited".
I felt grieved, I became low-spirited, but I could not make up my mind to tell her that I was eating her hair!
In the evening Lupin was very low-spirited, and I reminded him that behind the clouds the sun was shining.
Besides, by this arrangement poor Regine, always low-spirited and ailing, would at least have a husband in perfect health.
The cousins generally are rather shy of Chesney Wold in its dullness, but take to it a little in the shooting season, when guns are heard in the plantations, and a few scattered beaters and keepers wait at the old places of appointment for low-spirited twos and threes of cousins.
As soon as we were alone, she found me sad and low-spirited, although I tried hard not to appear so, but, as for her, always the same, she was handsome, brilliant, cheerful, and amorous.
When they reach the broad zone of calms and variable winds that lies somewhat north of the equator, between the northeast and the south-east trades, the zone that the French mariner so emphatically calls the pot au noir, the pitch-pot, they say that the ship is in the doldrums, as though she were low-spirited, profoundly melancholy, and she lying there with idly flapping sails in the damp oppressive heat, under a cloudy sky.