1. dejected - Adjective
2. dejected - Verb
of Deject
Cast down; afflicted; low-spirited; sad; as, a dejected look or countenance.
Source: Webster's dictionaryA man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected. Samuel Johnson
If you're the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, you've gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. I came out to California when I was 21, thinking my New York credentials would take me all the way. I came back home a year later all dejected and a failure. Vin Diesel
Never elated when one man 's oppress'd Never dejected while another 's bless'd. Alexander Pope
He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the later. Henry Fielding
He that seeketh victory over his nature, let him not set himself too great, nor too small tasks; for the first will make him dejected by often failings; and the second will make him a small proceeder, though by often prevailings. Francis Bacon
Appreciative love gazes and holds its breath and is silent, rejoices that such a wonder should exist even if not for him, will not be wholly dejected by losing her, would rather have it so than never to have seen her at all. C. S. Lewis