Definition of "in low spirits" []

• In a dejected manner (adverb)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "The father was not more than thirty, the most graceful and interesting creature you can conceive, but he looked constrained and ennuyé to death; at first, I thought he was in low spirits on account of his wife, but I soon found that his wife was a dreadful gêne to him; she was a cross, fretful, rigid woman, a great deal older than himself."