Word Meanings - JAW-FALLEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Dejected; chopfallen.
Related words: (words related to JAW-FALLEN)
- 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, - DEJECTORY
1. Having power, or tending, to cast down. 2. Promoting evacuations by stool. Ferrand. - DEJECTURE
That which is voided; excrements. Arbuthnot. - DEJECTLY
Dejectedly. - DEJECTER
One who casts down, or dejects. - DEJECTA
Excrements; as, the dejecta of the sick. - CHOPFALLEN
Having the lower chop or jaw depressed; hence, crestfallen; dejected; dispirited;downcast. See Chapfallen. - DEJECT
1. To cast down. Christ dejected himself even unto the hells. Udall. Sometimes she dejects her eyes in a seeming civility; and many mistake in her a cunning for a modest look. Fuller. 2. To cast down the spirits of; to dispirit; to discourage; - DEJECTED
Cast down; afflicted; low-spirited; sad; as, a dejected look or countenance. -- De*ject"ed*ly, adv. -- De*ject"ed*ness, n.