dejection
noun
[ dɪˈdʒɛkʃ(ə)n ]
• a sad and depressed state; low spirits.
• "he was slumped in deep dejection"
Similar:
despondency,
depression,
downheartedness,
dispiritedness,
disconsolateness,
disappointment,
discouragement,
desolation,
despair,
heavy-heartedness,
unhappiness,
sadness,
sorrowfulness,
sorrow,
dolefulness,
melancholy,
misery,
forlornness,
wretchedness,
glumness,
gloom,
gloominess,
low spirits,
the blues,
the dumps,
mopery,
Origin:
late Middle English: from Latin dejectio(n- ), from deicere ‘throw down’ (see deject).
