lowhearted

See also: low-hearted

English

Etymology

low +‎ hearted

Adjective

lowhearted (comparative more lowhearted, superlative most lowhearted)

1. Alternative form of low-hearted
   • 1985, Ursula K. Le Guin, Todd Barton, Margaret Chodos-Irvine, Always Coming Home, →ISBN, page 176:

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

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

     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.

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

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