DEJECTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dejected mean? 

• DEJECTED (adjective)
  The adjective DEJECTED has 1 sense:

1. affected or marked by low spirits

  Familiarity information: DEJECTED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEJECTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Affected or marked by low spirits

Context example:

is dejected but trying to look cheerful

Similar:

amort (utterly cast down)

chapfallen; chopfallen; crestfallen; deflated (brought low in spirit)

blue; depressed; dispirited; down; down in the mouth; downcast; downhearted; gloomy; grim; low; low-spirited (filled with melancholy and despondency)

glum (moody and melancholic)

lonely; lonesome (marked by dejection from being alone)

Also:

distressed; dysphoric; unhappy (generalized feeling of distress)

unhappy (experiencing or marked by or causing sadness or sorrow or discontent)

Antonym:

elated (exultantly proud and joyful; in high spirits)

 Context examples 

I submitted; and, with a countenance as expressive as I was able to make it of dejected and despairing constancy, came out of the room.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The high-spirited, joyous-talking Louisa Musgrove, and the dejected, thinking, feeling, reading, Captain Benwick, seemed each of them everything that would not suit the other.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Catherine took up her work directly, saying, in a dejected voice, that “her head did not run upon Bath—much.”

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Fanny, at once agitated and dejected, replied, “If you hear of it from everybody, cousin, there can be nothing for me to tell.”

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

He was pale and dejected, stained with dust, and exhausted with hunger and fatigue.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was for ever busy, and the only check to his enjoyments was my sorrowful and dejected mind.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

They all appeared with dejected looks, and in the meanest habit; most of them telling me, “they died in poverty and disgrace, and the rest on a scaffold or a gibbet.”

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

When is she dejected or melancholy?

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

The state of feeling sad or dejected as a result of lack of companionship or being separated from others.

(Loneliness, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

The other teachers, poor things, were generally themselves too much dejected to attempt the task of cheering others.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)