dejection

Noun

Meaning

A casting down; depression.

The act of humbling or abasing one's self.

Lowness of spirits occasioned by grief or misfortune; mental depression; melancholy.

The discharge of excrement.

Faeces; excrement.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

feces stool faeces despondency ordure fecal matter downheartedness faecal matter blue devils blues depression heartache melancholia lamentation exudation
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Antonyms

pearl highness rhapsody deliverance bliss felicity
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Hypernyms

depression excretion excrement excreta body waste excretory product

Hyponyms

dung dirt meconium muck poop shite

Phrases with the word

in a state of dejection

Examples

Extreme pride or dejection indicates extreme ignorance of self. Baruch Spinoza

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments. Gustave Flaubert

As high as we have mounted in delight, In our dejection do we sink as low. William Wordsworth

The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness... Leo Tolstoy

ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce in the reader's mind the dampest kind of dejection. Ambrose Bierce

Silence and reflection cause no dejection. German Proverb

Close letter words and terms

dejectedly preparing for dejectedness dejecter dejectly dejectory dejecture