Usually means: Feeling of sadness and despondency.
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  1. dejection: Merriam-Webster
  2. dejection: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dejection: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dejection: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dejection: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dejection, dejection: Wordnik
  7. dejection: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. dejection: Wiktionary
  9. dejection: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dejection: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. dejection: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. dejection: Dictionary.com
  13. dejection: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Dejection: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Dejection: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. dejection: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. dejection: Rhymezone
  18. Dejection: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. dejection: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. dejection: FreeDictionary.org
  21. dejection: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  1. dejection: Legal dictionary

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  1. dejection: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. dejection: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Dejection: Merck Manuals
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  5. dejection: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (dejection)

▸ noun:  A state of melancholy or depression; low spirits, the blues.
▸ noun:  The act of humbling or abasing oneself.
▸ noun:  A low condition; weakness; inability.
▸ noun:  (medicine, archaic) Defecation or feces.

Similar:
fecal matter, faecal matter, faeces, feces, ordure, stool, BM, despondence, dejectedness, downness, more...

Opposite:
elevation, elation, happiness, joy, upliftment

Types:
sadness, gloom, despair, grief, melancholy, more...

Phrases:
feeling of dejection, marked by dejection from being alone, more...

Adjectives:
deep, utter, great, profound, extreme, hopeless, mental, general, much, complete, silent

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Similar:
fecal matter, faecal matter, faeces, feces, ordure, stool, BM, despondence, dejectedness, downness, more...

Opposite:
elevation, elation, happiness, joy, upliftment

Types:
sadness, gloom, despair, grief, melancholy, more...

Phrases:
feeling of dejection, marked by dejection from being alone, more...

Adjectives:
deep, utter, great, profound, extreme, hopeless, mental, general, much, complete, silent

Colors:
    gray,     charcoal,     taupe,     pewter,     smoke, more...



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