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Definition
sad and depressed (seemingly without hope)- She is dejected but trying to look cheerful.
dejected = sad and depressed
- She is feeling dejected, but I think her world will look better after a good night's sleep.
- "I don't have any money left," I said to her dejectedly.Nicholas Sparks -- A Walk to Remember
- Lennie sat down on the ground and hung his head dejectedly.John Steinbeck -- Of Mice and Men
- "I guess I do think about it occasionally," The Giver said. "I think about my own release when I'm in an awful lot of pain. I wish I could put in a request for it, sometimes. But I'm not permitted to do that until the new Receiver is trained."
"Me," Jonas said in a dejected voice. He was not looking forward to the end of the training, when he would become the new Receiver.Lois Lowry -- The Giver - "That ship hated me," he said dejectedly, indicating the policecraft.Douglas Adams -- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- "Wait you here, Sarpent," said Deerslayer as he followed in the footsteps of the dejected beauty, while passing his friend.James Fenimore Cooper -- The Deerslayer
- He contemplated the motionless saw with a kind of hopeful dejection.William Faulkner -- The Sound and the Fury
- Well, I am your theme; you have the start of me; I am dejected; I am not able to answer the Welsh flannel.William Shakespeare -- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- "Don't let me disturb you," he went on, looking at her dejected pillar.Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 1
- They elected Winslow to tell me this, and he stood in front of me with puppy dog eyes relaying the collective dejection of the group.Kiera Cass -- The Heir
- I went to the Saturday-night parties hoping she might make an appearance and went home dejected because she didn't.Russell Baker -- Growing Up
- As Ahab now glided from the dejected Delight, the strange life-buoy hanging at the Pequod's stern came into conspicuous relief.Herman Melville -- Moby Dick
- Then he allowed his arm to sink slowly, and gazed at the pavement in profound dejection.Victor Hugo -- The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- His face wore a look of dejection and despair.Sampon Davis, et. al. -- We Beat the Street
- The latter, he was informed, was very feeble, and in a state of deep dejection.Lew Wallace -- Ben Hur
- They sat dejected on the ground with compressed lips and downcast eyes, listening to their comrade below.Joseph Conrad -- Lord Jim
- They were dejected by their play, wounded by their coach's comments, unsure of what to do next.Warren St. John -- Outcasts United
- The little one, not more than four or five, was on his knees, his hands folded, and his close-clipped, bare head drooping forward in deep dejection.Willa Cather -- My Antonia
- In the mingled light and gloom of an adjacent park, a handful of wet wanderers, in attitudes of chronic dejection, was scattered among the benches.Stephen Crane -- Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
dejected = sad and depressed
dejectedly = with low spirits
dejectedly = with low spirits (sadness, disappointment, hopelessness)
dejected = sad and depressed (seemingly without hope)
(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)
(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)
(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)
(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)
(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)
(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)
(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)