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adjective
- 1. sad and depressed; dispirited: "he stood in the street looking dejected"
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1. : low in spirits : depressed. The team was dejected after the loss. 2. a. obsolete : downcast. her eyes dejected and her hair unbound Alexander Pope. b. archaic : thrown down. 3. obsolete : lowered in rank or condition. the dejected state wherein he is Shakespeare. dejectedly adverb. dejectedness noun. Synonyms. bad. blue. brokenhearted.
Definitions of dejected. adjective. affected or marked by low spirits. “is dejected but trying to look cheerful” synonyms: amort. utterly cast down. chapfallen, chopfallen, crestfallen, deflated. brought low in spirit. blue, depressed, dispirited, down, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, gloomy, grim, low, low-spirited.
Definition of dejected adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
dejected in British English. (dɪˈdʒɛktɪd ) adjective. miserable; despondent; downhearted. Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers. Derived forms. dejectedly (deˈjectedly) adverb.
Dejected definition: depressed in spirits; disheartened; low-spirited. See examples of DEJECTED used in a sentence.
Define dejected. dejected synonyms, dejected pronunciation, dejected translation, English dictionary definition of dejected. adj. Being in low spirits; depressed. See Synonyms at depressed. de·ject′ed·ly adv. de·ject′ed·ness n.
noun. de· jec· tion di-ˈjek-shən. dē- Synonyms of dejection. : lowness of spirits. Did you know? Based partly on the Latin iacere, "to throw", dejection means literally "cast down"—that is, "downcast".
noun [ U ] uk / dɪˈdʒekʃ ə n / us. (Definition of dejected from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Translations of dejected. in Chinese (Traditional) 沮喪的, 失意的, 失望的… See more. in Chinese (Simplified) 沮丧的, 失意的, 失望的… See more. in Spanish. abatido, alicaído/ída [masculine-feminine], abatido/ida [masculine-feminine]…
to depress the spirits of; dispirit; dishearten: Such news dejects me. adj. [ Archaic.]dejected; downcast. Latin dējectus (past participle of dējicere to throw down), equivalent. to dē- de - + -jec-, combining form of jacere to throw + -tus past participle suffix. late Middle English dejecten (verb, verbal) 1375–1425.
dejected meaning, definition, what is dejected: unhappy, disappointed, or sad: Learn more.