dejection

Meaning

1. A state of melancholy or depression; low spirits, the blues.
2. The act of humbling or abasing oneself.
3. A low condition; weakness; inability.
4. Defecation or feces.

Synonyms

depression

despondency

sadness

melancholy

sorrow

gloom

grief

despondence

stool

ordure

feces

discouragement

unhappiness

low spirits

fecal matter

excrement

faecal matter

oppression

gloominess

stupor

faeces

despair

pensiveness

BM

downheartedness

melancholia

consternation

weakness

affliction

dispiritedness

defecation

lifelessness

lowness

megrims

miserableness

misery

moodiness

night soil

perplexity

pessimism

prostration

sale

sinking

subtraction

timidness

tiredness

trouble

weariness

withering

worry

blue devils

bowel movement

cafard

loss of spirit

frass

apathy

fatigue

pain

poverty

mopishness

mental pain

ruthfulness

depression of spirits

evacuation of the bowels

woe me

absentmindedness

discouragment

absent-mindedness

ah

alarm

alas

amazement

blues

cordiality

damp

deduction

dejectedness

demand

demoralization

denial

disappointment

discourage

disheartenment

dismay

displeasure

distress

dolefulness

drooping

dumps

excreta

exhaustion

fecula

hesitation

hopelessness

indolence

in English

lassitude

Pronounced as (IPA)

/dɪˈdʒɛkʃən/

Etymology

From Old French dejection, from Latin dejectio (“a casting down”).