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dejected

adj
/dɪˈdʒɛktəd/UK

Etymology

From deject + -ed.

  1. derived from dēiectus
  2. formed as dejected — “deject + -ed”

Definitions

  1. Sad and dispirited.

    • He looked dejected after hearing the bad news.
    • The team sat dejected in the locker room after their loss.
    • feel dejected

  2. simple past and past participle of deject

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at dejected. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01dejected02dispirited03disheartened04despairing05mood06sullen07gloomy

A definitional loop anchored at dejected. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at dejected

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA