If you are downhearted, you are feeling sad and discouraged. Max sighed, sounding even more downhearted = dejected. feeling sad and disappointed, especially because you have tried to achieve something but have failed
low in spirits; "lonely and blue in a strange city"; "depressed by the loss of his job"; "a dispirited and resigned expression on her face"; "downcast after his defeat"; "feeling discouraged and downhearted"