English-Thai Dictionary

dejection

N ความผิดหวัง  ความเศร้า ใจ  ความหดหู่ ใจ  despondency kwam-pid-wang

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DEJECTION

n. 1. A casting down; depression of mind; melancholy; lowness of spirits, occasioned by grief or misfortune.
2. Weakness; as dejection of appetite.
3. The act of voiding the excrements; or the matter ejected.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

DEJECTION

De *jec "tion, n. Etym: [L. dejectio a casting down: cf. F. déjection.]

 

1. A casting down; depression. [Obs. or Archaic ] Hallywell.

 

2. The act of humbling or abasing one's self. Adoration implies submission and dejection. Bp. Pearson.

 

3. Lowness of spirits occasioned by grief or misfortune; mental depression; melancholy. What besides, Of sorrow, and dejection, and despair, Our frailty can sustain, thy tidings bring. Milton.

 

4. A low condition; weakness; inability. [R.] A dejection of appetite. Arbuthnot.

 

5. (Physiol.) (a ) The discharge of excrement. (b ) Fæces; excrement. Ray.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

dejection

de jec tion |diˈjekSHən dəˈʤɛkʃən | ▶noun a sad and depressed state; low spirits: he was slumped in deep dejection. ORIGIN late Middle English: from Latin dejectio (n- ), from deicere ‘throw down ’ (see deject ).

 

Oxford Dictionary

dejection

de |jec ¦tion |dɪˈdʒɛkʃ (ə )n | ▶noun [ mass noun ] a sad and depressed state; low spirits: he was slumped in deep dejection. ORIGIN late Middle English: from Latin dejectio (n- ), from deicere ‘throw down ’ (see deject ).

 

Oxford Thesaurus

dejection

dejection noun he wandered around in a state of utter dejection: 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; informal the blues, the dumps; rare mopery. ANTONYMS happiness.

 

French Dictionary

déjection

déjection n. f. nom féminin 1 Évacuation des excréments. 2 Excréments. : Des déjections de chiens et de chats.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

dejection

de j é c tion 名詞 1 U 落胆, 気落ち, 憂うつ .2 U C 〘医 〙排泄 （はいせつ ）, 便通 ; 大便 .