dejection
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dejection
- /dɪˈdʒɛkʃən/ UK
- /dəˈd͡ʒɛkʃən/ US
Rhymes with -ɛkʃən
Where it comes from
From Old French dejection, from Latin dejectio (“a casting down”). By surface analysis, deject + -ion.
noun dejections
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A state of melancholy or depression; low spirits, the blues.
Similar: despondency, downheartedness, crestfallenness, blueness, tristesse, mirthlessness, blues, dejection, depression, distress, dolefulness, drearihead
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The act of humbling or abasing oneself.
Adoration implies submission and dejection, so that while we worship we cast down ourselves; there must be therefore some great eminence in the object worshipped, or else we should dishonor our own nature in the worship of it.
Similar: abasement, humiliation, submission
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A low condition; weakness; inability.
Meat remaining in the stomach undigested, dejection of appetite, wind coming upwards, are signs of a phlegmatick constitution.
Similar: dearth, want, deficiency, deficit, dejection, inadequacy, infrequency, insufficiency, meagerness, nonsufficiency, lack, paucity
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Defecation or feces.
No dejection since his entrance, nor has he passed urine.
Similar: excrement, bowel movement, big jobs, cack, call of nature, crap, crapping, defecating, defecation, doing one's ease, doing one's easement, dump
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noun a state of melancholy or depression
| Español | abatimiento, desaliento, desánimo |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 슬픔 seulpeum |
| 中文 | 沮喪 /沮丧 jǔsàng |
| हिन्दी | विषाद viṣād |
| Português | dejeção, desânimo |
| Français | abattement |
| Italiano | abbattimento |
| Русский | уны́ние unýnije, удручение udručenije |
| עברית | דכדוך dikhdókh |
noun defecation or feces
| Español | deyección |
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