cabizbajo

Spanish

Etymology

Possibly from cabeza (“head”) +‎ bajo (“low”) (compare Portuguese cabisbaixo).

Adjective

cabizbajo (feminine cabizbaja, masculine plural cabizbajos, feminine plural cabizbajas)

1. crestfallen, downcast, dejected, gloomy, glum

   Synonyms: abatido, encogido

Derived terms

• cabizbajamente
• cabizbajar

Verb

cabizbajo

1. first-person singular present indicative of cabizbajar

Further reading

• “cabizbajo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10