dejection — English Dictionary

Noun

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

   Usage

   • Countable
   • Uncountable

   Synonyms

   despondencydownheartednesscrestfallenness

2. The act of humbling or abasing oneself.

   Usage

   • Countable
   • Uncountable

   Synonyms

   abasementhumiliationsubmission

   Examples

   More examples (1)

   Adoration implies submission and dejection, so that while we worship we cast down ourselves; there must be therefore some great eminence in the object worshipped, or else we should dishonor our own nature in the worship of it.

3. A low condition; weakness; inability.

   Usage

   • Countable
   • Uncountable

   Synonyms

   dearthwant

   Examples

   Meat remaining in the stomach undigested, dejection of appetite, wind coming upwards, are signs of a phlegmatick constitution.

4. Defecation or feces.

   Usage

   • Archaic
   • Countable
   • Uncountable

   Synonyms

   excrementbowel movement

   Examples

   No dejection since his entrance, nor has he passed urine.

   More examples (2)

   His dejections were frequent, loose, changing in character from hour to hour, made up of undigested food, of mucus and watery fluid, varying in color, mostly green, and never healthy in consistence, color, or odor.

   Chorera infantum may begin as an attack of acute indigestion, or, what is more frequently the case, suddenly, with severe vomiting and copious dejections, high fever and rapid prostration.

Noun

1. a state of melancholy depression

   Broader terms

   depression

2. solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels

   Synonyms

   fecal matterfaecal matterfecesfaecesBMstoolordure

   Broader terms

   body wasteexcretionexcretaexcrementexcretory product