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# downhearted

«downhearted» in Mova's school dictionary: **sad and without hope, feeling low after something has…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (downhearted, more downhearted, most downhearted)

### meaning for a pupil

Downhearted means sad and without hope, feeling low after something has gone wrong: don't be downhearted if you lose. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/downhearted/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in stories, a character is downhearted when things go badly, and a kind friend cheers them up.

### examples

- Don't be downhearted, you will do better next time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/downhearted/#x1)
- The little boy was downhearted after the rain spoiled the picnic. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/downhearted/#x2)
- She felt downhearted when no one came to her party. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/downhearted/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «downhearted» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/downhearted/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.