dejection
Roget-categorie 837
6. Words relating to the sentient and moral› 6.2. Personal affections
›› 6.2.1. Passive affections
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Dejection
zelfstandig naamwoord
dejection —
dejectedness
etc.
adj. —
depression,
prosternation† —
lowness of spirits,
depression of spirits —
weight on the spirits,
oppression on the spirits,
damp on the spirits —
low spirits,
bad spirits,
drooping spirits,
depressed spirits —
heart sinking —
heaviness of heart,
failure of heart.
heaviness
etc.
adj. —
infestivity†,
gloom —
weariness
etc.
841 —
taedium vitae,
disgust of life —
mal du pays
etc.
(regret)
833 —
anhedonia†.
melancholy —
sadness
etc.
adj. —
il penseroso [It],
melancholia,
dismals†,
blues,
lachrymals†,
mumps†,
dumps,
blue devils,
doldrums —
vapors,
megrims,
spleen,
horrors,
hypochondriasis [Med.],
pessimism —
la maladie sans maladie [Fr.] —
despondency,
slough of Despond —
disconsolateness
etc.
adj. —
hope deferred,
blank despondency —
voiceless woe.
prostration of soul —
broken heart —
despair
etc.
859 —
cave of despair,
cave of Trophonius demureness
etc.
adj. —
gravity,
solemnity —
long face,
grave face.
hypochondriac,
seek sorrow,
self-tormentor,
heautontimorumenos†,
malade imaginaire [Fr.],
medecin tant pis [Fr.] —
croaker,
pessimist —
mope,
mopus†.
[Cause of dejection]
affliction
etc.
830 —
sorry sight —
memento mori [Lat.] —
damper,
wet blanket,
Job's comforter.
werkwoord
be dejected
etc.
adj. —
grieve —
mourn
etc.
(lament)
839 —
take on,
give way,
lose heart,
despond,
droop,
sink.
lower,
look downcast,
frown,
pout —
hang down the head —
pull a long face,
make a long face —
laugh on the wrong side of the mouth —
grin a ghastly smile —
look blue,
look like a drowned man —
lay to heart,
take to heart.
mope,
brood over —
fret —
sulk —
pine,
pine away —
yearn —
repine
etc.
(regret)
833 —
despair
etc.
859.
refrain from laughter,
keep one's countenance —
be grave,
look grave
etc.
adj. —
repress a smile.
depress —
discourage,
dishearten —
dispirit —
damp,
dull,
deject,
lower,
sink,
dash,
knock down,
unman,
prostrate,
break one's heart —
frown upon —
cast a gloom,
cast a shade on —
sadden —
damp one's hopes,
dash one's hopes,
wither one's hopes —
weigh on the mind,
lie heavy on the mind,
prey on the mind,
weigh on the spirits,
lie heavy on the spirits,
prey on the spirits —
damp the spirits,
depress the spirits.
bijvoeglijk naamwoord
cheerless,
joyless,
spiritless —
uncheerful,
uncheery† —
unlively† —
unhappy
etc.
828 —
melancholy,
dismal,
somber,
dark,
gloomy,
triste [Fr.],
clouded,
murky,
lowering,
frowning,
lugubrious,
funereal,
mournful,
lamentable,
dreadful.
dreary,
flat —
dull,
dull as a beetle,
dull as ditchwater† —
depressing
etc.
v..
melancholy as a gib cat —"
oppressed with melancholy,
a prey to melancholy —
downcast,
downhearted —
down in the mouth,
down in one's luck —
heavy-hearted —
in the dumps,
down in the dumps,
in the suds,
in the sulks,
in the doldrums —
in doleful dumps,
in bad humor —
sullen —
mumpish†,
dumpish,
mopish†,
moping —
moody,
glum —
sulky
etc.
(discontented)
832 —
out of sorts,
out of humor,
out of heart,
out of spirits —
ill at ease,
low spirited,
in low spirits,
a cup too low —
weary
etc.
841 —
discouraged,
disheartened —
desponding —
chapfallen†,
chopfallen†,
jaw fallen,
crest fallen.
sad,
pensive,
penseroso [It],
tristful† —
dolesome†,
doleful —
woebegone —
lacrymose,
lachrymose,
in tears,
melancholic,
hypped†,
hypochondriacal,
bilious,
jaundiced,
atrabilious†,
saturnine,
splenetic —
lackadaisical.
serious,
sedate,
staid,
stayed —
grave as a judge,
grave as an undertaker,
grave as a mustard pot —
sober,
sober as a judge,
solemn,
demure —
grim —
grim-faced,
grim-visaged —
rueful,
wan,
long-faced.
disconsolate —
unconsolable,
inconsolable —
forlorn,
comfortless,
desolate,
desole [Fr.],
sick at heart —
soul sick,
heart sick —
au desespoir [Fr.] —
in despair
etc.
859 —
lost.
overcome —
broken down,
borne down,
bowed down —
heartstricken
etc.
(mental suffering)
828† —
cut up,
dashed,
sunk —
unnerved,
unmanned —
down fallen,
downtrodden —
broken-hearted —
careworn.
bijwoord
with a long face,
with tears in one's eyes —
sadly
etc.
adj..
uitdrukking
the countenance falling —
the 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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