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low mood

noun

A2CEFR level
15/100Rarity: common
TechnicalRegister

A persistently sad or flat emotional state that is milder or more transient than clinical depression.

She described several weeks of low mood, poor concentration and early-morning waking.

Similar: depressed mood

Topic: Advanced English in Medical English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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