Dejected
adjective
Feeling very sad or disappointed.
He was very dejected after losing the football match.
Often appears as...
- feel dejected
- look dejected
Usage tips
Disapproving
adjective
Feeling very sad or disappointed.
He was very dejected after losing the football match.
Often appears as...
- feel dejected
- look dejected
Usage tips
Disapproving
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Pro Tip 1/3Intensity Varies
Dejected implies a strong feeling of sadness, more intense than just being disappointed or upset.
His dejected expression said more than words ever could.
Pro Tip 2/3Temporary State
Use 'dejected' to describe a temporary emotional state, not a permanent characteristic.
She felt dejected after her performance but later regained her usual confidence.
Pro Tip 3/3Non-Physical
Dejected is used for someone's emotions or spirits, not physical things like objects or places.
Despite his efforts, he walked away dejected.
Pro Tip 1/3Intensity Varies
Dejected implies a strong feeling of sadness, more intense than just being disappointed or upset.
His dejected expression said more than words ever could.
Pro Tip 2/3Temporary State
Use 'dejected' to describe a temporary emotional state, not a permanent characteristic.
She felt dejected after her performance but later regained her usual confidence.
Pro Tip 3/3Non-Physical
Dejected is used for someone's emotions or spirits, not physical things like objects or places.
Despite his efforts, he walked away dejected.
Pro Tip 1/3Intensity Varies
Dejected implies a strong feeling of sadness, more intense than just being disappointed or upset.
His dejected expression said more than words ever could.
Pro Tip 2/3Temporary State
Use 'dejected' to describe a temporary emotional state, not a permanent characteristic.
She felt dejected after her performance but later regained her usual confidence.
Pro Tip 3/3Non-Physical
Dejected is used for someone's emotions or spirits, not physical things like objects or places.
Despite his efforts, he walked away dejected.
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keep shooting I mean this picture here was you know not a fluke I mean I had so many chances to get this shot cuz she kept trying to feed me this penguin and I swear as she swam by me to get the penguin that just swam away she had this dejected look on her face and she'd look over at me she'd swim by grab the penguin and do it again and the
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How to Feel Like a...
tourists directing one person to strike a strong powerful pose and the other to assume an unhappy dejected one after paying them $50 each we offered them a chance to either keep their cash or try to double their money the question is will they take the risk or play it safe
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John Hunter: Teaching...
there was about a minute left -- and despair just settled over the room. I thought, I'm failing as a teacher. I should have gotten it so they could have won. They shouldn't be failing like this. I've failed them. And I was just feeling so sad and dejected.
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The myth of Loki and the...
When he returned, the festivities had grown even rowdier. But not every god was enjoying the party. Baldur’s brother Hodur, who was blind and weapon-less, sat dejected. Seeing his opportunity, the trickster slyly offered Hodur a chance to participate.
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The history of human...
and his friends come to visit and they find him dejected and feverish, having heart palpitations, strange sores breaking out on his body. Doctors are called, and they think it's so serious that prayers are said for him in the local church.
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looks like a lion and that is the dejected loser who was dealt with perpendicularly by Kapali the male and he's watching from a distance as Kapali is having the best of his life and between the time you saw me
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In this time he’s learned the magic of the island and uses it to harness its elementary spirits. He also rules over the island’s only earthly inhabitant, the dejected and demonized Caliban.
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Grief and love in the...
I was with my husband Charlie. I really needed a break from work. But I succumbed, and I checked my work email. You know how that is. And there was a communication about a dejected donkey.
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Why I train grandmothers...
On a warm August morning in Harare, Farai, a 24-year-old mother of two, walks towards a park bench. She looks miserable and dejected.
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Safari Live - Day 69 PIPE...
I fell look so dejected no need to look so dejected
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Face-to-Face with a...
keep shooting I mean this picture here was you know not a fluke I mean I had so many chances to get this shot cuz she kept trying to feed me this penguin and I swear as she swam by me to get the penguin that just swam away she had this dejected look on her face and she'd look over at me she'd swim by grab the penguin and do it again and the
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How to Feel Like a...
tourists directing one person to strike a strong powerful pose and the other to assume an unhappy dejected one after paying them $50 each we offered them a chance to either keep their cash or try to double their money the question is will they take the risk or play it safe
Video examples
John Hunter: Teaching...
there was about a minute left -- and despair just settled over the room. I thought, I'm failing as a teacher. I should have gotten it so they could have won. They shouldn't be failing like this. I've failed them. And I was just feeling so sad and dejected.
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The myth of Loki and the...
When he returned, the festivities had grown even rowdier. But not every god was enjoying the party. Baldur’s brother Hodur, who was blind and weapon-less, sat dejected. Seeing his opportunity, the trickster slyly offered Hodur a chance to participate.
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The history of human...
and his friends come to visit and they find him dejected and feverish, having heart palpitations, strange sores breaking out on his body. Doctors are called, and they think it's so serious that prayers are said for him in the local church.
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Safari Live - Day 230 PIPE...
looks like a lion and that is the dejected loser who was dealt with perpendicularly by Kapali the male and he's watching from a distance as Kapali is having the best of his life and between the time you saw me
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Why should you read...
In this time he’s learned the magic of the island and uses it to harness its elementary spirits. He also rules over the island’s only earthly inhabitant, the dejected and demonized Caliban.
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Grief and love in the...
I was with my husband Charlie. I really needed a break from work. But I succumbed, and I checked my work email. You know how that is. And there was a communication about a dejected donkey.
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Why I train grandmothers...
On a warm August morning in Harare, Farai, a 24-year-old mother of two, walks towards a park bench. She looks miserable and dejected.
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Safari Live - Day 69 PIPE...
I fell look so dejected no need to look so dejected
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Vin Diesel
American Actor
If you're the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, you've gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. I came out to California when I was 21, thinking my New York credentials would take me all the way. I came back home a year later all dejected and a failure.
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Karishma Tanna
Indian Actress
I do feel a bit dejected about my film career. I am sad that it didn't take off as expected. I didn't get my due as an actor. I have an attractive personality and good looks. But I don't know what went wrong? You need to stop thinking about such things and move on.
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Kangana Ranaut
Indian Actress
When I did these psychological characters like the drug addicts, the ones who were rejected and dejected, I started to feel a sort of melancholia which was very unnatural for me to have at a teenage. Then I avoided those characters.
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Mary H.K. Choi
South Korean Author
You are overwhelmed, overscheduled, and dejected because you keep trying to have it all - or at least most of it. You want a fulfilling job and personal life, and it's not working. The way out? Work more.
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Henry Fielding
English Novelist
He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the later.
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Suresh Gopi
Indian Actor
I am neither dejected nor depressed because every one has a bad phase in one's life. I realized it the hard way because the momentum of my social life too slowed down.
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Noel Edmonds
English Producer
It's amazing how a simple brief phone call can pick up the spirits of the most dejected hamster, the most stressed goldfish and the most neurotic cat.
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Samuel Hoffenstein
Russian Writer
When you're away, I'm restless, lonely, Wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you're near.
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Mahesh Babu
Indian Actor
Yes, 'Aagadu' was a failure. I was dejected for a couple of months, since there was a lot at stake.
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Alexander Pope
English Poet
Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.
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Vin Diesel
American Actor
If you're the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, you've gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. I came out to California when I was 21, thinking my New York credentials would take me all the way. I came back home a year later all dejected and a failure.
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Karishma Tanna
Indian Actress
I do feel a bit dejected about my film career. I am sad that it didn't take off as expected. I didn't get my due as an actor. I have an attractive personality and good looks. But I don't know what went wrong? You need to stop thinking about such things and move on.
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Kangana Ranaut
Indian Actress
When I did these psychological characters like the drug addicts, the ones who were rejected and dejected, I started to feel a sort of melancholia which was very unnatural for me to have at a teenage. Then I avoided those characters.
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Mary H.K. Choi
South Korean Author
You are overwhelmed, overscheduled, and dejected because you keep trying to have it all - or at least most of it. You want a fulfilling job and personal life, and it's not working. The way out? Work more.
Quote examples
Henry Fielding
English Novelist
He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the later.
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Suresh Gopi
Indian Actor
I am neither dejected nor depressed because every one has a bad phase in one's life. I realized it the hard way because the momentum of my social life too slowed down.
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Noel Edmonds
English Producer
It's amazing how a simple brief phone call can pick up the spirits of the most dejected hamster, the most stressed goldfish and the most neurotic cat.
Quote examples
Samuel Hoffenstein
Russian Writer
When you're away, I'm restless, lonely, Wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you're near.
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Mahesh Babu
Indian Actor
Yes, 'Aagadu' was a failure. I was dejected for a couple of months, since there was a lot at stake.
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Alexander Pope
English Poet
Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.
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