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- Dictionarydejected/dɪˈdʒɛktɪd/
adjective
- 1. sad and depressed; dispirited: "he stood in the street looking dejected"
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unhappy, disappointed, or without hope: She looked a bit dejected when they told her she didn't get the job. Synonyms. blue (SAD) informal. depressed. despondent. dispirited. doleful. dolorous literary. downcast. downhearted. down in the dumps. gloomy. glum informal. low-spirited. melancholy. miserable (UNHAPPY) mournful. plaintive. sad (NOT HAPPY)
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.
unhappy, disappointed, or without hope: She looked a little dejected when they told her she didn't get the job. Synonyms. blue (SAD) informal. depressed. despondent. dispirited. doleful. dolorous literary. downcast. downhearted. down in the dumps. gloomy. glum informal. low-spirited. melancholy. miserable (UNHAPPY) mournful. plaintive.
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.
Dejected definition: depressed in spirits; disheartened; low-spirited. See examples of DEJECTED used in a sentence.
Jun 4, 2024 · dejected in British English. (dɪˈdʒɛktɪd ) adjective. miserable; despondent; downhearted. Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers. Derived forms. dejectedly (deˈjectedly) adverb.
Definition of dejected adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
the feeling of being unhappy, disappointed, or without hope: He wandered around in a state of utter dejection. She made no effort to hide her dejection. See. dejected. Fewer examples. With total dejection, she remarked, "What a waste ".
If you are dejected, you feel miserable or unhappy, especially because you have just been disappointed by something. [...]
: lowness of spirits. Did you know? Based partly on the Latin iacere, "to throw", dejection means literally "cast down"—that is, "downcast". Like melancholy, gloom, and even sadness, dejection seems to have been declining in use for many years; instead, we now seem to prefer depression (whose roots mean basically "a pressing down").
