Word Meanings - DEJECTED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Cast down; afflicted; low-spirited; sad; as, a dejected look or countenance. -- De*ject"ed*ly, adv. -- De*ject"ed*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DEJECTED)

• Low
• Abated
• sunk
• depressed
• stunted
• declining
• deep
• subsided
• inaudible
• cheap
• gentle
• dejected
• degraded
• mean
• abject
• base
• unworthy
• lowly
• feeble
• moderate
• frugal
• reprieved
• subdued
• reduced
• poor
• Melancholy
• Gloomy
• sad
• disconsolate
• dismal
• moody
• hypochondriacal
• cast down
• Pensive
• Meditative
• ruminating
• thoughtful
• musing
• reflective
• impressed
• melancholy
• sober
• Sad
• Heavy
• grave
• dull
• sorrowful
• woe-begone
• calamitous
• doleful
• mournful
• gloomy
• cheerless
• serious
• downcast
• grievous
• saturnine
• Sorry
• Grieved
• pained
• hurt
• afflicted
• downhearted
• mortified
• vexed
• vile
• shabby
• worthless

Related words: (words related to DEJECTED)

• DEJECTION
  1. A casting down; depression. Hallywell. 2. The act of humbling or abasing one's self. Adoration implies submission and dejection. Bp. Pearson. 3. Lowness of spirits occasioned by grief or misfortune; mental depression; melancholy. What besides,
• SERIOUS
  1. Grave in manner or disposition; earnest; thoughtful; solemn; not light, gay, or volatile. He is always serious, yet there is about his manner a graceful ease. Macaulay. 2. Really intending what is said; being in earnest; not jesting
• GRAVES
  The sediment of melted tallow. Same as Greaves.
• DEJECTORY
  1. Having power, or tending, to cast down. 2. Promoting evacuations by stool. Ferrand.
• MUSQUAW
  The American black bear. See Bear.
• GRAVEDIGGER
  See T (more info) 1. A digger of graves.
• PENSIVE
  weigh, ponder, consider, v. intens. fr. pendere to weigh. See 1. Thoughtful, sober, or sad; employed in serious reflection; given to, or favorable to, earnest or melancholy musing. The pensive secrecy of desert cell. Milton. Anxious cares
• DECLINATION
  The angular distance of any object from the celestial equator, either northward or southward. (more info) 1. The act or state of bending downward; inclination; as, declination of the head. 2. The act or state of falling off or declining
• ABATVOIX
  The sounding-board over a pulpit or rostrum.
• VEXILLAR; VEXILLARY
  Of or pertaining to the vexillum, or upper petal of papilionaceous flowers. Vexilary æstivation , a mode of æstivation in which one large upper petal folds over, and covers, the other smaller petals, as in most papilionaceous plants. (more info)
• MORTIFIER
  One who, or that which, mortifies.
• MUSCULOSPIRAL
  Of or pertaining to the muscles, and taking a spiral course; -- applied esp. to a large nerve of the arm.
• GRIEVE
  1. To occasion grief to; to wound the sensibilities of; to make sorrowful; to cause to suffer; to affect; to hurt; to try. Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God. Eph. iv. 30. The maidens grieved themselves at my concern. Cowper, 2. To sorrow over;
• MOURNFUL
  Full of sorrow; expressing, or intended to express, sorrow; mourning; grieving; sad; also, causing sorrow; saddening; grievous; as, a mournful person; mournful looks, tones, loss. -- Mourn"ful*ly, adv. -- Mourn"ful*ness, n. Syn. -- Sorrowful;
• MUSCAT
  A name given to several varieties of Old World grapes, differing in color, size, etc., but all having a somewhat musky flavor. The muscat of Alexandria is a large oval grape of a pale amber color.
• MUSIC HALL
  A place for public musical entertainments; specif. , esp. a public hall for vaudeville performances, in which smoking and drinking are usually allowed in the auditorium.
• MUSTELINE
  Like or pertaining to the family Mustelidæ, or the weasels and martens.
• MUSCIFORM
  Having the form or structure of flies of the genus Musca, or family Muscidæ.
• CHEAPLY
  At a small price; at a low value; in a common or inferior manner.
• ABJECT
  1. Cast down; low-lying. From the safe shore their floating carcasses And broken chariot wheels; so thick bestrown Abject and lost lay these, covering the flood. Milton. 2. Sunk to a law condition; down in spirit or hope; degraded; servile;
• RAMUSCULE
  A small ramus, or branch.
• GAINPAIN
  Bread-gainer; -- a term applied in the Middle Ages to the sword of a hired soldier.
• ELECTRO-MUSCULAR
  Pertaining the reaction of the muscles under electricity, or their sensibility to it.
• PHILOMUSICAL
  Loving music. Busby.
• AFTERPAINS
  The pains which succeed childbirth, as in expelling the afterbirth.