Synonyms for dejection
Most common
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Despondency — A state of melancholy or depression; low spirits, the blues
despondency, sadness, unhappiness, melancholy, depression, melancholia, sorrow, misery, discouragement, gloom, grief, blues, hypochondria, low spirits, mourn formal, down-heartedness, crestfallenness, wretchedness, distress, woe, remorse, infelicity
2. Feces — defecation or feces
feces US CA, faeces UK, stool, waste, defecation, excrement, crap, fecal matter, bowel movement, ordure, shit vulgar
3. Humiliation — the act of humbling or abasing oneself
Definitions
- n. 1
A state of melancholy or depression; low spirits, the blues.
- n. 2
The act of humbling or abasing oneself.
- n. 3
A low condition; weakness; inability.
- n. 4
Defecation or feces.
Forms
- Plural
- dejections → despondencies, sadnesses, unhappinesses, melancholies…
Example sentences
- depression The report states that there will be a depression.
- sadness There was also an irrefutable sadness in his eyes.
- unhappiness This created a lot of unhappiness in Yanni's life.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| dejection | rising | |
| depression | rising | |
| sadness | rising | |
| unhappiness | rising | |
| despondency | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 3 letters
- woe1
- 4 letters
- want1, shit1, crap1
- 5 letters
- waste1, blues1, grief1, stool1, mourn1, gloom1, feces2
- 6 letters
- misery3, sorrow2, dearth1, faeces, ordure
- 7 letters
- sadness2, remorse2
- 8 letters
- distress2
- 9 letters
- excrement3, abasement
- 10 letters
- depression3, submission3, melancholy4, defecation, infelicity
- 11 letters
- humiliation5, unhappiness4, melancholia, despondency4
- 12 letters
- hypochondria5, wretchedness
- 14 letters
- discouragement4
- 15 letters
- crestfallenness
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (feces2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- accablement