dejection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈdʒɛkʃən/
ipa: /dəˈd͡ʒɛkʃən/
rhymes: -ɛkʃən
Forms: form: dejections
Etymology: From Old French dejection, from Latin dejectio (“a casting down”).
Senses: synonyms: word: despondency
word: downheartedness
word: crestfallenness
word: blueness
word: mirthless
word: blues
word: crestfallenness
word: dejection
word: depression
word: despondency
word: distress
word: dolefulness
word: downheartedness
word: drearihead
word: forlornness
word: grief
word: heartsore
word: ill-being
word: infelicity
word: melancholia
word: melancholy
word: misery
word: mishappiness
word: mourn
word: prosternation
word: regret
word: rue
word: ruth
word: sadness
word: sorrow
word: sorrowfulness
word: tristfulness
word: undelight
word: unhappiness
word: woe
word: woefare
word: wretchedness
glosses: A state of melancholy or depression; low spirits, the blues.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1659, Bishop John Pearson, An Exposition of the Creed:
synonyms: abasement
humiliation
submission
glosses: The act of humbling or abasing oneself.
examples: text: Meat remaining in the stomach undigested, dejection of appetite, wind coming upwards, are signs of a phlegmatick constitution.
ref: 1732, John Arbuthnot, Practical Rules of Diet in the Various Constitutions and Diseases of Human Bodies:
synonyms: word: dearth
word: want
word: dearth
word: deficiency
word: deficit
word: dejection
word: inadequacy
word: infrequency
word: insufficiency
word: meagerness
word: nonsufficiency
word: lack
word: paucity
word: penury
word: rareness
word: rarity
word: scantiness
word: scarcity
word: shortage
word: shortcoming
word: unsufficiency
word: want
glosses: A low condition; weakness; inability.
examples: text: No dejection since his entrance, nor has he passed urine.
ref: 1855, Austin Flint, Clinical Reports on Continued Fever Based on Analyses of One Hundred and Sixty-Four Cases, Linday & Blakiston, First Clinical Report on Continued Fever, Based on an Analysis of Forty-Two Cases, page 39:
text: His dejections were frequent, loose, changing in character from hour to hour, made up of undigested food, of mucus and watery fluid, varying in color, mostly green, and never healthy in consistence, color, or odor.
ref: 1861, James Jackson, Another Letter to a Young Physician, Applewood Books, published 2010, →ISBN, Note I. John Lowell, page 103:
text: Chorera infantum may begin as an attack of acute indigestion, or, what is more frequently the case, suddenly, with severe vomiting and copious dejections, high fever and rapid prostration.
ref: 1921, Charles Signmund Raue, Diseases of Children - Homeopathic Treatment, 2nd edition, B. Jain Publishers, published 2000, →ISBN, Chapter IX Diseases of the Intestines, pages 205–206:
topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: word: excrement
word: bowel movement
word: big jobs
word: bowel movement
word: cack
word: call of nature
word: crap
word: crapping
word: defecating
word: defecation
word: doing one's ease
word: doing one's easement
word: dump
word: dumping
word: easement
word: hod
word: motion
word: number two
word: poo
word: pooh
word: poop
word: purging
word: sharn
word: shit
word: shitting
word: spraying
word: taking a shit
word: boo-boo
word: boom-boom
word: caca
word: cack
word: chocolate
word: chocolate hot dog
word: crap
word: crud
word: danna
word: dejection
word: dirt
word: do do
word: doo-doo
word: doody
word: dook
word: dookie
word: dooky
word: droppings
word: dump
word: dumplings
word: dung
word: Eartha
word: Eartha Kitt
word: excrement
word: faeces
word: faex
word: fecal matter
word: feces
word: flop
word: fudge
word: gong
word: guano
word: ish
word: jobby
word: log
word: merd
word: muck
word: nature
word: night soil
word: number two
word: ordure
word: poo
word: pooh
word: poop
word: poopie
word: poo-poo
word: poopy
word: pure
word: purging
word: scat
word: sharn
word: shit
word: shite
word: soil
word: stool
word: thost
word: tom tit
word: turd
word: waste
glosses: Defecation or feces.