be in dismay; be cheerless; be in a dismal mood; be in a very melancholy frame of mind; be in low spirits; be in the doldrums; be out of spirits; be overwhelmed with grief; be quite out of spirits; be rather troubled in one's mind; be splenetic; feel out of spirits; feel sad and gloomy; he was melancholy and there was no joy in him.; mope about; suffer from spleen; suffer from the mopes [blues]