Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Being in low spirits; depressed. synonym: depressed.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Thrown down; lying prostrate.
  • Low-spirited; downcast; forlorn; depressed; melancholy from failure, apprehension, or the like.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Cast down; afflicted; low-spirited; sad.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Sad and dispirited.
  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of deject.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective affected or marked by low spirits

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Examples

  • “His face was pale, his figure wasted and bent, and his expression dejected and nervous; one might have taken him for a walking shadow.

    Musicians of To-Day Rolland, Romain, 1866-1944 1915

  • "His face was pale, his figure wasted and bent, and his expression dejected and nervous; one might have taken him for a walking shadow.

    Musicians of To-Day Romain Rolland 1905

  • Then passing by altogether the other idea which I said was only doubtfully suggested by the words -- namely, that of laceration and wounding -- let me say a word about the last of the aspects of humanity when Christless, which is set forth in this text, and that is, the dejected weariness arising from the fruitless wanderings wherewith men are cursed.

    Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII Alexander Maclaren 1868

  • President Clinton is described as "dejected" by the turn of events

    Now Bill Himself Goes After Obama Over Reagan Interview 2009

  • President Clinton is described as "dejected" by the turn of events

    Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Now Bill Himself Goes After Obama Over Reagan Interview 2009

  • I finish up my shopping, not whistling as much because the next song isn't as counterpoint-able really! that's why! and check out, feeling kind of dejected, you know.

    Archive 2006-12-01 Pat 2006

  • I finish up my shopping, not whistling as much because the next song isn't as counterpoint-able really! that's why! and check out, feeling kind of dejected, you know.

    Geek. Dork. Nerd. Pat 2006

  • I just feel kind of dejected and disoriented about a certain boi and a certain trip to a certain foreign country and the certain ramifications that might have on our certain relationship.

    tuesday blues 2005

  • I just feel kind of dejected and disoriented about a certain boi and a certain trip to a certain foreign country and the certain ramifications that might have on our certain relationship.

    Archive 2005-08-01 2005

  • "He'll come back when the fifty pounds is exhausted," said he in a kind of dejected rage, "and when he does --" A clenched fist shaken at nothing terminated the speech and showed that the leopard could not change his spots.

    The Opal Serpent Fergus Hume 1895

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