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dejection

noun · 6 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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: /dɪˈdʒɛkʃən/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • US: /dəˈd͡ʒɛkʃən/
  • rhymes with -ɛkʃən

1

noun

Meaning 1

A state of melancholy or depression; low spirits, the blues.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: despondency, downheartedness, crestfallenness, blueness, tristesse, mirthless, blues, dejection, depression, distress, dolefulness, drearihead, forlornness, grief, heartsore, ill-being, infelicity, melancholia, melancholy, misery, mishappiness, mourn, prosternation, regret, rue, ruth, sadness, sorrow, sorrowfulness, tristfulness, undelight, unhappiness, woe, woefare, wretchedness

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

The act of humbling or abasing oneself.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: abasement, humiliation, submission

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

A low condition; weakness; inability.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: dearth, want, deficiency, deficit, dejection, inadequacy, infrequency, insufficiency, meagerness, nonsufficiency, lack, paucity, penury, rareness, rarity, scantiness, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, unsufficiency

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

Defecation or feces.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: archaic, countable, uncountable

Topics: medicine, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: excrement, bowel movement, big jobs, cack, call of nature, crap, crapping, defecating, defecation, doing one's ease, doing one's easement, dump, dumping, easement, hod, motion, number two, poo, pooh, poop, purging, sharn, shit, shitting, spraying, taking a shit, boo-boo, boom-boom, BM, caca, chocolate, chocolate hot dog, crud, danna, dejection, dirt, do do, doo-doo, doody, dook, dookie, dooky, droppings, dumplings, dung, Eartha, Eartha Kitt, faeces, faex, fecal matter, feces, flop, fudge, gong, ish, jobby, merd, muck, nature, ordure, poopie, poo-poo, poopy, pure, scat, shite, soil, stool, thost, tom tit, turd, waste

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

a state of melancholy depression

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: depression

6

noun

Meaning 6

solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: fecal matter, faecal matter, feces, faeces, BM, stool, ordure

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: body waste, excretion, excreta, excrement, excretory product

Narrower terms: dog shit, dog do, doggy do, dog turd, crap, dirt, shit, shite, poop, turd, droppings, dung, muck, meconium, melena, melaena

History

Etymology

From Old French dejection, from Latin dejectio (“a casting down”). By surface analysis, deject + -ion.

Across languages

Translations

28 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Bulgarian: униние (uninie) — a state of melancholy or depression
  • Chinese Mandarin: 沮喪 /沮丧 (jǔsàng) — a state of melancholy or depression
  • Czech: sklíčenost — a state of melancholy or depression
  • Czech: melancholie — a state of melancholy or depression
  • Danish: modløshed — a state of melancholy or depression
  • Danish: nedtrykthed — a state of melancholy or depression
  • Dutch: moedeloosheid — a state of melancholy or depression
  • Finnish: masentuneisuus — a state of melancholy or depression
  • Finnish: alakuloisuus — a state of melancholy or depression
  • French: abattement — a state of melancholy or depression
  • Ancient Greek: κατήφεια (katḗpheia) — a state of melancholy or depression
  • Hebrew: דכדוך (dikhdókh) — a state of melancholy or depression
  • Hindi: विषाद (viṣād) — a state of melancholy or depression
  • Irish: gruaim — a state of melancholy or depression
  • Italian: abbattimento — a state of melancholy or depression
  • Korean: 슬픔 (seulpeum) — a state of melancholy or depression
  • Polish: przygnębienie — a state of melancholy or depression
  • Polish: strapienie — a state of melancholy or depression
  • Portuguese: dejeção — a state of melancholy or depression
  • Portuguese: desânimo — a state of melancholy or depression
  • Romagnol: abatimént — a state of melancholy or depression
  • Russian: уны́ние (unýnije) — a state of melancholy or depression
  • Russian: удручение (udručenije) — a state of melancholy or depression
  • Spanish: abatimiento — a state of melancholy or depression
  • Spanish: desaliento — a state of melancholy or depression
  • Spanish: desánimo — a state of melancholy or depression
  • Ukrainian: пригні́ченість (pryhníčenistʹ) — a state of melancholy or depression
  • Spanish: deyección — defecation or feces