dejected

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin deicio.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪˈdʒɛktəd/

• Audio (US):

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Adjective

dejected (comparative more dejected, superlative most dejected)

1. Sad and dispirited.
   • 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 […]

Synonyms

• dejectable (rare)
• depressed
• despondent
• disheartened
• down in the mouth

Antonyms

• hopeful

Derived terms

• dejectedly

Translations

sad and dispirited

• Arabic: قَانِط (qāniṭ), أَسْوَان (ʔaswān), بَائِس (ar) (bāʔis), حَزِين (ḥazīn)
• Bulgarian: обезсърчен (bg) (obezsǎrčen), 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, 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: 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)
• Maori: hākerekere, auwhi
• Norwegian:

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

• 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)
• Spanish: abatido (es), desalentado (es), desanimado (es)
• Swedish: nedslagen (sv), nedstämd (sv)
• 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.