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dejection

Roget-categorie 837

6. Words relating to the sentient and moral
6.2. Personal affections
›› 6.2.1. Passive affections

#837. Dejection

zelfstandig naamwoord

dejectiondejectedness etc. adj. — depression, prosternationlowness of spirits, depression of spiritsweight on the spirits, oppression on the spirits, damp on the spiritslow spirits, bad spirits, drooping spirits, depressed spiritsheart sinkingheaviness of heart, failure of heart.
heaviness etc. adj. — infestivity, gloomweariness etc. 841taedium vitae, disgust of lifemal du pays etc. (regret) 833anhedonia.
melancholysadness etc. adj. — il penseroso [It], melancholia, dismals, blues, lachrymals, mumps, dumps, blue devils, doldrumsvapors, megrims, spleen, horrors, hypochondriasis [Med.], pessimismla maladie sans maladie [Fr.]despondency, slough of Desponddisconsolateness etc. adj. — hope deferred, blank despondencyvoiceless woe.
prostration of soulbroken heartdespair etc. 859cave of despair, cave of Trophonius demureness etc. adj. — gravity, solemnitylong face, grave face.
hypochondriac, seek sorrow, self-tormentor, heautontimorumenos, malade imaginaire [Fr.], medecin tant pis [Fr.]croaker, pessimistmope, mopus.
[Cause of dejection] affliction etc. 830sorry sightmemento mori [Lat.]damper, wet blanket, Job's comforter.

werkwoord

be dejected etc. adj. — grievemourn etc. (lament) 839take on, give way, lose heart, despond, droop, sink.
lower, look downcast, frown, pouthang down the headpull a long face, make a long facelaugh on the wrong side of the mouthgrin a ghastly smilelook blue, look like a drowned manlay to heart, take to heart.
mope, brood overfretsulkpine, pine awayyearnrepine etc. (regret) 833despair etc. 859.
refrain from laughter, keep one's countenancebe grave, look grave etc. adj. — repress a smile.
depressdiscourage, disheartendispiritdamp, dull, deject, lower, sink, dash, knock down, unman, prostrate, break one's heartfrown uponcast a gloom, cast a shade onsaddendamp one's hopes, dash one's hopes, wither one's hopesweigh on the mind, lie heavy on the mind, prey on the mind, weigh on the spirits, lie heavy on the spirits, prey on the spiritsdamp the spirits, depress the spirits.

bijvoeglijk naamwoord

cheerless, joyless, spiritlessuncheerful, uncheeryunlivelyunhappy etc. 828melancholy, dismal, somber, dark, gloomy, triste [Fr.], clouded, murky, lowering, frowning, lugubrious, funereal, mournful, lamentable, dreadful.
dreary, flatdull, dull as a beetle, dull as ditchwaterdepressing etc. v.. melancholy as a gib cat —" oppressed with melancholy, a prey to melancholydowncast, downhearteddown in the mouth, down in one's luckheavy-heartedin the dumps, down in the dumps, in the suds, in the sulks, in the doldrumsin doleful dumps, in bad humorsullenmumpish, dumpish, mopish, mopingmoody, glumsulky etc. (discontented) 832 out of sorts, out of humor, out of heart, out of spiritsill at ease, low spirited, in low spirits, a cup too lowweary etc. 841discouraged, dishearteneddespondingchapfallen, chopfallen, jaw fallen, crest fallen.
sad, pensive, penseroso [It], tristfuldolesome, dolefulwoebegonelacrymose, lachrymose, in tears, melancholic, hypped, hypochondriacal, bilious, jaundiced, atrabilious, saturnine, spleneticlackadaisical.
serious, sedate, staid, stayedgrave as a judge, grave as an undertaker, grave as a mustard potsober, sober as a judge, solemn, demure grimgrim-faced, grim-visagedrueful, wan, long-faced.
disconsolateunconsolable, inconsolableforlorn, comfortless, desolate, desole [Fr.], sick at heartsoul sick, heart sickau desespoir [Fr.]in despair etc. 859lost.
overcomebroken down, borne down, bowed downheartstricken etc. (mental suffering) 828cut up, dashed, sunkunnerved, unmanneddown fallen, downtroddenbroken-heartedcareworn.

bijwoord

with a long face, with tears in one's eyessadly etc. adj..

uitdrukking

the countenance fallingthe heart failing, the heart sinking within one a plague of sighing and grief" [Henry IV]; thick-ey'd musing and curs'd melancholy" [Henry IV]; the sickening pang of hope deferred" [Scott].

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