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LOW SPIRITS
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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)
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)
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