dejected

English

Etymology

From deject + -ed.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪˈdʒɛktəd/

• Audio (US):

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Adjective

dejected (comparative more dejected, superlative most dejected)

1. Sad and dispirited.

   He looked dejected after hearing the bad news.

   The team sat dejected in the locker room after their loss.

   feel dejected

   look dejected

   sit dejected and silent

   Synonyms: (rare) dejectable, depressed, despondent, disheartened; see also Thesaurus:sad

   Antonym: hopeful

   • 1818, Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs, Philadelphia: T.S. Manning, Volume I, p. 73,^[1]

     I pitied poor Miss Read’s unfortunate situation, who was generally dejected, seldom cheerful, and avoided company […]

Derived terms

• dejectedly
• dejectedness
• undejected

Translations

sad and dispirited — see also discouraged

• Arabic: قَانِط (qāniṭ), أَسْوَان (ʔaswān), بَائِس (ar) (bāʔis), حَزِين (ḥazīn)
• Bulgarian: обезсърчен (bg) (obezsărčen), унил (bg) (unil)
• Catalan: capbaix
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 懊喪 / 懊丧 (zh) (àosàng), 抑鬱 / 抑郁 (zh) (yìyù), 氣餒 / 气馁 (zh) (qìněi), (+ -的 -de) 灰心 (zh) (huīxīn), 沮喪 / 沮丧 (zh) (jǔsàng), 頹靡 / 颓靡 (zh) (tuímǐ)

• Czech: sklíčený, zkroušený (cs), skleslý
• Danish: nedslået, nedtrykt, modløs
• Dutch: terneergeslagen (nl), neerslachtig (nl)
• Finnish: apea (fi), alakuloinen (fi)
• French: déprimé (fr), abattu (fr), découragé (fr)
• Galician: engurriñado m, escalfurrado m, esmalloado m, ingoixado m, demerxido m, amuado m, apadumado m, maganto m, amaiado (gl) m, esmangoletado m, apouvigado m
• German: mutlos (de), niedergeschlagen (de), deprimiert (de), entmutigt (de), betrübt (de), traurig (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: κατηφής (katēphḗs), ἄθυμος (áthumos)

• Gutnish: amodug
• Irish: ceanníseal, atuirseach, scíth (literary)
• Italian: abbattuto (it), scoraggiato (it)
• Japanese: 落胆した (らくたんした, rakutan-shita), 失意の (しついの, shitsui-no), 消然 (しょうぜん, shōzen)
• Latin: dēiectus
• Macedonian: по́тиштен (pótišten), мра́чен (mráčen), нераспо́ложен (neraspóložen)
• Māori: hākerekere, auwhi
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: nedslått, nedstemt, motløs, bedrøvet, motfallen (no)

• Old Church Slavonic: оумилѥнъ (umiljenŭ)
• Persian: نژند (fa) (nežand), فگار (fa) (fagâr)
• Plautdietsch: mootlooss
• Polish: przygnębiony (pl)
• Portuguese: abatido (pt), desanimado (pt)
• Romagnol: abatù
• Russian: уны́лый (ru) (unýlyj), пода́вленный (ru) (podávlennyj), мра́чный (ru) (mráčnyj), удручённый (ru) (udručónnyj)
• Slovak: skrúšený
• Spanish: abatido (es), desanimado (es), marrido (es), amarrido (es), apocoyado (es)
• Swedish: nedslagen (sv), nedstämd (sv)
• Turkish: kederli (tr)
• Ukrainian: пригні́чений (pryhníčenyj)
• Vietnamese: chán nản (vi)
• Welsh: penisel (cy), pendrwm, pendrist, digalon (cy), trist (cy)

Verb

dejected

1. simple past and past participle of deject

References

• “dejected”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.