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   deject

   /dɪˈdʒɛkt/

   verb

   • 1. make sad or dispirited; depress: archaic "nothing dejects a trader like the interruption of his profits"

   Word 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’.

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   The meaning of DEJECT is dejected. Verb nothing dejects a TV pundit more than the reality check that nobody cares what he thinks

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   Deject means to have a depressing effect on someone or to be downcast. Learn the word origin, pronunciation, collocations, and usage of deject with sentences from The Guardian and other sources.

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   To deject is to make someone feel really, really sad. Few things will deject you more than losing your very favorite scarf — the one your grandmother knit — on the subway.

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   Deject means to lower the spirits of or dishearten someone. Find the origin, pronunciation, and translations of deject in different languages, as well as synonyms and related words.

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   The earliest known use of the adjective deject is in the Middle English period (1150—1500). OED's earliest evidence for deject is from 1430, in a translation by John Lydgate, poet and prior of Hatfield Regis.

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   Oct 11, 2024 · Learn the meaning, pronunciation, etymology, and usage of the word deject as a verb and a noun. Find out the synonyms, antonyms, and related terms for deject in English.

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   What does deject mean?

   • deject (plural dejects) One who is lowly or abject. Lovers, lovers, football brothers; rejects, dejects, clowns and crakaz: boot him one, in the nakaz!

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   What is another word for dejected?

   • Other forms: dejected; dejects; dejecting To deject is to make someone feel really, really sad. Few things will deject you more than losing your very favorite scarf — the one your grandmother knit — on the subway. This verb is rarely used these days, so you're most likely to find it in an old book— the adjective dejected is much more common.

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   What is the root word of deject?

   • From Old French dejeter, from Latin deicere (“to throw down”). deject (third-person singular simple present dejects, present participle dejecting, simple past and past participle dejected) (transitive) Make sad or dispirited.

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   What does it mean when a woman comes home feeling dejected?

   • She often came home feeling dejected. She was so dejected and rundown after the result she had to take part of the following week off. The tone is utterly dejected. Perhaps they have just split up from a relationship and feel dejected, or have problems with their colleagues at work.

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   Deject means to depress the spirits of or to cast down. It can also be an adjective meaning downcast or dejected. Learn more about its usage, history and synonyms from Dictionary.com.