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dejectable

dejectable adjective: dejected.

Adjective

dejectable (comparative more dejectable, superlative most dejectable)

  1. (rare) dejected
    • John Jones was a Farmer and highly respectable,
      Always in spirits and never dejectable,
      One of these men who would never annoy himself,
      But o'er his pipe and his glass would enjoy himself.1832, Orlando Hodgson, Hodgson's National Songster, etc, page 225
    • He was mounted upon an ass, a poor dejectable beast, whose back swayed beneath the mercer's weight as I 'neath your heavy wit, till his poor belly all but touched the ground.1943, David Cheney, Bow Strings, page 273

Forms of dejectable

comparativemore dejectable
superlativemost dejectable

Origin of dejectable

From deject + -able.

Questions about dejectable

What does dejectable mean?
Dejectable means dejected.
What part of speech is dejectable?
Dejectable is an adjective.

Words near dejectable in the dictionary

  1. Dejarnett
  2. Dejarnetts
  3. dejavu
  4. deject
  5. dejecta
  6. dejectable
  7. dejected
  8. dejectedly
  9. dejectedness
  10. dejecter
  11. dejecters

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