dejection

[ dih-jek-shuhn ]
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noun
  1. depression or lowness of spirits.

  2. Medicine/Medical, Physiology.

    • evacuation of the bowels; fecal discharge.

Origin of dejection

1
1400–50; late Middle English deieccioun<Latin dējectiōn- (stem of dējectiō) a throwing down, equivalent to dēject(us) (see deject) + -iōn--ion

Opposites for dejection

Other words from dejection

  • self-de·jec·tion, noun
  • su·per·de·jec·tion, noun

Words Nearby dejection

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How to use dejection in a sentence

  • Perhaps it would make them ashamed of their dejection, and fill them with the spirit of the heroic days.

  • Thus he sat, dejection and despair stamped on his homely face; haughty, yet a suppliant; a king, yet only by sufferance.

    The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte | William Milligan Sloane

British Dictionary definitions for dejection

dejection

/ (dɪˈdʒɛkʃən) /


noun
  1. lowness of spirits; depression; melancholy

    • faecal matter evacuated from the bowels; excrement

    • the act of defecating; defecation

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