Dejection

Definition: Dejection

Dejection

Noun

1. A state of melancholy depression.

2. Solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "dejection" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Synonyms: Dejection

Dejection

Noun: dejection; dejectedness; Adjective: depression, prosternation; lowness of spirits, depression of spirits; weight on the spirits, oppression on the spirits, damp on the spirits; low spirits, bad spirits, drooping spirits, depressed spirits; heart sinking; heaviness of heart, failure of heart.

Excretion

Noun: excretion, discharge, emanation; exhalation, exudation, extrusion, secretion, effusion, extravasation, ecchymosis; evacuation, dejection, faeces, excrement, stools, crap; bloody flux; cacation; coeliac-flux, coeliac-passion; dysentery; perspiration, sweat; subation, exudation; diaphoresis; sewage; eccrinology.

Hopelessness

Noun: hopelessness; Adjective: despair, desperation; despondency, depression; (dejection); pessimism, pessimist; Job's comforter; bird of bad omen, bird of ill omen.

Pain

Dejection; weariness; anhedonia.

Crosswords: Dejection

Books

• The untimely death of a nihilist : a tale of murder and dejection (reference)

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His dejection was most evident

His whole person expressed abasement and firmness, an indescribably courageous dejection.

He felt with a smart of dejection that the man to whom he was speaking was a countryman of Ben Jonson

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Expression using "dejection": seize dejection. Additional references.

Afrikaans

beklemming (depression, oppression), beklemdheid (depression, oppression), bedruktheid (depression, oppression, sadness, sorrow). (various references)

Albanian

lavë (lava), jashtëqitje (defecation, excrement, excreta, faeces, ordure), hidhërim (chagrin, grief, sadness, soreness, sorrow, unhappiness), hi (ash, calyces, calyx, cinders), brengosje. (various references)

Arabic 

‏كآبة (bleakness, damp, depression, desolation, despondency, dreariness, gauntness, gloom, gloominess, grief, low spirits, melancholy, moodiness, mope, sadness, sombreness, sorrow, spleen), ‏غائط (dirt, evacuation, excrement, movement, turd), ‏تغوط (defecate, defecation, evacuate, evacuation, motion, movement, pass, pass water, pooh), ‏إكتئاب (gloominess). (various references)

Bulgarian 

униние (damp, despond, despondency, doldrums, droop, dullness, mopes, sadness), отделяне на изпражнения, лава (lava, slag), подтиснатост (anxiety, depression, inhibition, jim-jams, low spirits, the blues, the dumps), подтиснато настроение (doldrums, hump), пепел (ash, ashes, cinder). (various references)

Czech

zádumèivost (gloom), splín (depression), skleslost (depression), sklíèenost (despondency, discouragement, low spirits, misery). (various references)

Danish

defaecation (defecation). (various references)

Dutch

droefheid (affliction, sadness, sorrow), droefgeestigheid (depression, gloom, melancholy), dejectio (defecation), dejectie (defecation), zwaarmoedigheid (depression, gloom, ill humor, ill humour, melancholy), weemoed (depression, gloom, melancholy), treurigheid (sadness, sorrow), smart (annoyance, disappointment, grief, sadness, sorrow), neerslachtigheid (depression), melancholie (depression, gloom, melancholy), gedruktheid (depression), beklemming (agony, anguish, depression, fear, oppression), bedruktheid (depression, oppression), bedroefdheid (gloom, grief, sadness, sorrow). (various references)

Esperanto

deprimiteco (depression), korpremiteco (depression, oppression). (various references)

Farsi 

پژمانی , سرافکندگی , افسردگی (Depression, Doldrums, Freeze, Gloom, Melancholia, Oppression), دلمردگی . (various references)

French

abattement (demand, depression, despondency). (various references)

Frisian

hertsear (sadness, sorrow), fertriet (sadness, sorrow). (various references)

German

Niedergeschlagenheit (depression, depressiveness, despondency, heaviness of spirit, low spirits). (various references)

Greek 

κατήφεια (dumps, gloom, gloominess, melancholy, moodiness, mopishness, pensiveness), απέκκριση (excretion), αποθάρρυνση (damp, demoralization, despondency, discouragement), αφόδευση (defaecation, defecation, evacuation of bowels). (various references)

Hebrew 

מעצב (depression, gloom, melancholy, sorrow), יאוש (despair, desperation, despondency), �"כאון (depression, dispiritedness, gloominess, hypochondria, melancholia, melancholy, morbidity), �"כ�"וך (chagrin, depression, dismay, gloom, gloominess, low spirits, moodiness, spleen). (various references)

Hungarian

levertség (affliction, dejectedness, depression, dispiritedness, droop, heaviness, mood, moodiness, mopes, prostration), csüggedtség (despond, dispiritedness). (various references)

Indonesian

kepatahan hati, kemuraman (gloom), kegundahan (depression, despondency). (various references)

Italian

deiezione (defecation). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

落胆 (despondency, discouragement), 憂鬱 (depression, gloom, melancholy). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

そそう (ancestors, blunder, careless mistake, carelessness, loss of spirit, rat's nest), そうし�" (absent-mindedness, losing consciousness, slim figure, stupor, transmission, weight reduction), きぬけ (dispiritedness), しょうぜ�" (a small kindness, admiration, appreciation, continued, enjoyment, minor good deed), しょうち�", らくた�" (despondency, discouragement), ゆううつ (depression, gloom, melancholy), よくうつ (depression). (various references)

Manx

trommys (heaviness, heaviness of spirit, pensiveness), sou-aigney (anxiety, despond, mirthlessness, sorrow), lhag-chreeys (depression, desolation, desolation of persons, despond, faint-heartedness), grouwid (ghastliness, gloom, gloominess, glumness, grimness), groamid (blues, cheerlessness, disagreeableness, gloom, gloominess, glumness, grimness, ill temper, joylessness, moodiness, moping, moroseness, sombreness, sternness, sullenness). (various references)

Norwegian

sorg (grief, sadness, sorrow). (various references)

Papiamen

disgustu (disgust, loathing, nausea, sadness, sorrow), ferdrit (sadness, sorrow). (various references)

Pig Latin

ejectionday.(various references)

Portuguese

desânimo (chill, damp, depression, despond, despondency, discouragement, dismay, megrims, prostration, the mopes), depressão (basin, cavity, chill, crater, damp, depression, doldrums, goneness, low-spiritedness, megrims, oppression, prostration, sag, valley), dejecção (defecation), defecação (defecation), tristeza (annoyance, bleakness, gloom, grief, melancholy, mourning, regret, sadness, sorrow), melancolia (atrabiliousness, gloom, heartache, low-spiritedness, melancholia, melancholy, mourning, sadness), abatimento (chill, damp, depression, despondency, discount, doldrums, drawback, droop, enervation, heaviness, languor, mope, prostration, rebate, reduction, sag, settlement, weekness). (various references)

Romanian

descurajare (damp, despondency, discouragement, lowness), deprimare (blue, depression, doldrums, low spirits, lowness, melancholy, the dismals), depresiune (basin, blues, bottom, cave, cavity, delve, depression, despondency, draw, hollow, melancholia, notch, pan, sag, scoop), tristeţe (blue, damp, depression, dullness, gloom, heaviness, melancholy, mourning, sadness), jale (despair, gloom, grief, groans, mourning, sage, sorrow, wailing, woe), fecale. (various references)

Russian 

уныние (black dog, blue devils, damp, depression, despondency, discouragement, doldrums, dumps, gloom, low spirits, megrims, melancholy, sadness). (various references)

Scottish

sprochd (lowness of spirits. Better sproc), smuairean (grief), pr� mh (a slumber, slight sleep, slumber), leann-dubh (sadness; inflected on). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

duševna depresija, utučenost (depression, despond, dispiritedness, heaviness, megrims). (various references)

Spanish

deyección (defecation, ejection), desaliento (depression, despondency, discouragement, dismay, dispiritedness), desánimo (despond, discouragement, dispiritedness, low spirits), defecación (defecation), tristeza (dreariness, gloom, lamina, melancholia, misery, sadness, sorrow), abatimiento (abasement, demolition, depression, depressiveness, despondency, megrims, melancholia, melancholy). (various references)

Swahili

huzuni (sadness, sorrow). (various references)

Swedish

förstämning (depression). (various references)

Turkish

dışkı (evacuation, excrement, excreta, excretion, faecal matter, faeces, rejectamenta, rejection, stool, turd), keyifsizlik (ailment, huff, indisposition, malaise, seediness), kaka (evacuation, excrement, excreta, faecal matter, faeces, rejectamenta, stool), aci (acerbic, ache, affliction, annoyance, bitter, disappointment, grief, pain, sadness, sorrow), üzüntü (affliction, care, chagrin, damp, desolation, distress, disturbance, fret, grief, hurt, mopes, regret, sadness, sorrow, straits, trouble, unhappiness, woe, worry). (various references)

Ukrainian

скидання (casting, dropping), смуток (damp, depression, despondency, discouragement, funk, shadow, sorrow), пригнічений настрій (broken spirit). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự thất vọng (blue devils, chagrin, collapsable, despair, despondency, let-down, suck-in), sự bu�"n nản (chagrin). (various references)

Welsh

digalondid (depression). (various references)

abiectio, abiectione, abiectionem. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "dejection": dejections. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Dejection" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: D'election, d'execution, edjection. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: ejection, injected.

-2 letters: codeine, ctenoid, deontic, enticed, jointed, noticed.

-3 letters: cenote, codein, coedit, coined, deceit, decent, deject, denote, docent, edenic, encode, endite, entice, inject, joined, noetic, notice.

-4 letters: cento, cited, coden, coned, conte, coted, deice, dicot, diene, donee, edict, eject, jeton, joint, niece, noted, ontic, teind, tined, tondi, toned, tonic.

-5 letters: cede, cedi, cent, cete.

+1 letter: dejections.

+2 letters: introjected.

+4 letters: microinjected.