dejection

dejection
n
disheartenment, dispiritedness, low-spiritedness, downheartedness, low spirits, downcastness; discouragement, disappointment, crestfallenness, broken-heartedness, heartsickness; unhappiness, cheerlessness, glumness, gloominess, dolefulness, mopishness, mopiness; sadness, melancholy, sorrowfulness, mournfulness, lachrimosity; miserableness, moroseness, heartbrokenness, forlornness, woebe-goneness, disconsolateness, disconsolation, despair, hopelessness; depression, blues, blue devils, doldrums, Inf. dumps, Inf. funk, Sl. blue funk, Both Psychiatry. hypochondria, hypochondriosis, Archaic. vapors; despondency, spiritlessness, lifelessness, enervation, ex-animation.

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  • déjection — [ deʒɛksjɔ̃ ] n. f. • 1538; lat. méd. dejectio « action de jeter dehors » 1 ♦ Méd. Évacuation des matières fécales par l intestin. Plur. (Plus cour.) Les matières évacuées. ⇒ excrément. Le guano est formé de déjections d oiseaux. 2 ♦ Géol.… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • Dejection — De*jec tion, n. [L. dejectio a casting down: cf. F. d[ e]jection.] 1. A casting down; depression. [Obs. or Archaic] Hallywell. [1913 Webster] 2. The act of humbling or abasing one s self. [1913 Webster] Adoration implies submission and dejection …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • dejection — early 15c., from O.Fr. dejection abjection, depravity; casting down and directly from L. dejectionem (nom. dejectio), noun of action from pp. stem of dejicere to cast down (see DEJECT (Cf. deject)) …   Etymology dictionary

  • Dejection — (v. lat.), Ausstoßung; 1) (Med.), Durchfall; daher Dejectorium, Abführungsmittel; 2) (Rechtsw.), Ausstoßung, die gewaltsame Entsetzung aus dem Besitz …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

  • Dejection — Dejection, lat., in der Medicin: Durchfall; in der Rechtssprache: Verstoßung, Entsetzung; dejiciren, ausstoßen, vertreiben …   Herders Conversations-Lexikon

  • dejection — index depression, dissatisfaction, pessimism, prostration Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • déjection — DÉJECTION. sub. fém. Terme de Médecine. Les excrémens, les selles d un malade. Les déjections marquent que sa maladie sera longue …   Dictionnaire de l'Académie Française 1798

  • dejection — depression, melancholy, melancholia, gloom, *sadness, blues, dumps Analogous words: despondency, hopelessness, forlornness, despair, desperation (see under DESPONDENT) Antonyms: exhilaration …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • dejection — Dejection. s. f. v. Terme de Medecine, les excremens, les selles d un malade. Ses decoctions marquent que sa maladie sera longue …   Dictionnaire de l'Académie française

  • dejection — ► NOUN ▪ sadness or low sprits. ORIGIN Latin, from deicere throw down …   English terms dictionary

  • dejection — [dē jek′shən, dijek΄shən] n. [ME dejeccioun < L dejectio: see DEJECT] 1. lowness of spirits; depression 2. Med. a) defecation b) feces; excrement …   English World dictionary

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