deject

English

Etymology

Latin deicere (“to throw down”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛkt

Verb

deject (third-person singular simple present dejects, present participle dejecting, simple past and past participle dejected)

1. (transitive, rare) Make sad or dispirited.

   "I pitied poor Miss Read's unfortunate situation. She was generally dejected, seldom cheerful, and avoided company" -Benjamin Franklin

Translations

make sad or dispirited

Bulgarian: обезсърчавам (bg)

Quotations

• 1927 Harold Victor Routh: God, Man, & Epic Poetry: A Study in Comparative Literature [1] (page 215)

  Vergil succeeds in filling Hades with all that depresses and dejects in his world, so that Aeneas encounters the causes of Augustan pessimism.

• 1933 Arthur Melville Jordan: Educational Psychology (page 60) [2]

  On the other hand, there is nothing which dejects school children quite so much as failure.

Derived terms

• dejected
• dejection