dejected
adjective
[ dɪˈdʒɛktɪd ]
• sad and depressed; dispirited.
• "he stood in the street looking dejected"
Similar:
downcast,
downhearted,
despondent,
disconsolate,
dispirited,
crestfallen,
cast down,
depressed,
disappointed,
disheartened,
discouraged,
demoralized,
crushed,
desolate,
heartbroken,
broken-hearted,
heavy-hearted,
low-spirited,
in the doldrums,
sad,
unhappy,
doleful,
melancholy,
miserable,
woebegone,
forlorn,
long-faced,
fed up,
wretched,
glum,
gloomy,
dismal,
shamefaced,
hangdog,
blue,
choked,
down,
down in the mouth,
down in the dumps,
brassed off,
cheesed off,
dolorous,
chap-fallen,
deject
verb
• make sad or dispirited; depress.
• "nothing dejects a trader like the interruption of his profits"
Origin:
late Middle English (also in the sense ‘overthrow, abase, degrade’): from Latin deject- ‘thrown down’, from the verb deicere, from de- ‘down’ + jacere ‘to throw’.
