noun
Meaning 1
One who is lowly or abject.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
deject
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: /dɪˈdʒɛkt/
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rhymes with -ɛkt
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CMU ARPABET: D IH0 JH EH1 K T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A waste product.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: plural-normally
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
Make sad or dispirited.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: depress, get down, aggrieve, attrist, begloom, begrieve, besorrow, grieve, pain, bring down, come down on, contristate, darken, dash, deject, desolate, dispirit, engrieve, forset, grieven, moan, oppress, repent, rue, sadden, sadden up, tristitiate, ungladden, unhappy, upset
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 4
To cast downward.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: downcast, throw down
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 5
To debase or humble.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: abase, humiliate, put someone in their place
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 6
lower someone's spirits; make downhearted
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- These news depressed her
- The bad state of her child's health demoralizes her
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: depress, cast down, get down, dismay, dispirit, demoralize, demoralise
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: discourage
Narrower terms: chill
History
Etymology
From Old French dejeter, from Latin dēiectus, past participle of dēicere (“to throw down”), from dē- (“from, down from”) + iacere (“to throw”).
Across languages
Translations
21 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: обезсърчавам (obezsǎrčavam) — make sad or dispirited
- Chinese Mandarin: 使灰心 — make sad or dispirited
- Chinese Mandarin: 使沮丧 — make sad or dispirited
- Czech: sklíčit — make sad or dispirited
- Danish: gøre nedtrykt — make sad or dispirited
- Danish: gøre modløs — make sad or dispirited
- German: deprimieren — make sad or dispirited
- German: bedrücken — make sad or dispirited
- German: betrüben — make sad or dispirited
- Ido: depresar — make sad or dispirited
- Māori: whakapōuri — make sad or dispirited
- Norwegian Bokmål: gjøre nedstemt — make sad or dispirited
- Norwegian Bokmål: gjøre motløs — make sad or dispirited
- Russian: обескура́живать (obeskuráživatʹ) — make sad or dispirited
- Russian: удруча́ть (udručátʹ) — make sad or dispirited
- Russian: угнета́ть (ugnetátʹ) — make sad or dispirited
- Russian: подавля́ть (podavljátʹ) — make sad or dispirited
- Russian: приводи́ть в уны́ние (privodítʹ v unýnije) — make sad or dispirited
- Ukrainian: пригнічувати (pryhničuvaty) — make sad or dispirited
- Ukrainian: засмучувати (zasmučuvaty) — make sad or dispirited
- Welsh: darostwng — make sad or dispirited