amort
9.9
Feeling very sad and without energy
- adjective
- /əˈmɔrt/
- Archaic
:
abatido
- Her face was amort, drained of all cheer and hope.
Examples
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The soldiers returned from the battlefield, amort and silent.
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He sat in the corner, looking amort after receiving the dire news.
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Don't be so amort!
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She feels amort.
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He sat in the corner, looking amort after receiving the dire news.
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Her face was amort, drained of all cheer and hope.
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The soldiers returned from the battlefield, amort and silent.
Synonyms
dejected
vsamort
10
4.5
Feeling very sad and not hopeful
is more extreme, completely without spirit or hope
9
7.7
Showing or feeling complete defeat and no hope
is extreme sadness without implying submission or surrender
downcast
vsamort
3
4.7
Feeling sad and without much hope
is more intense, utterly without energy or hope
Antonyms
How Depressed
Surface Forms
amort positive
Etymology
Amort comes from the parts a- and mort, where mort means 'death', the same root you see in mortal. So it originally meant 'to death' or 'dead inside', which is why amort now describes being very sad and without energy.