Synonyms of dejection
120 similar words
Another word for dejection is ill-being. Other synonyms of dejection are depression, misery, sorrow, grief and woe.
Synonyms and similar words for dejection
nounA state of melancholy or depression; low spirits, the blues.
- despondencyA feeling of depression or disheartenment.
- downheartednessThe characteristic of being downhearted; sadness.
- crestfallennessThe quality of being crestfallen.
- bluenessMelancholy.
- tristesse literarySadness.
- mirthlessLacking mirth; devoid of joy; sad.
- bluesA feeling of sadness or depression.
- depressionA state of mind producing serious, long-term lowering of enjoyment of life or inability to visualize a happy future...
- distress
- dolefulnessThe characteristic of being doleful; sadness.
- forlornnessThe state or characteristic of being forlorn; sadness; loneliness.
- griefEmotional pain, generally arising from misfortune, significant personal loss, bereavement, misconduct of oneself or...
- ill-beingThe state of being ill, unhealthy, or unhappy; misery; miserableness.
- infelicity
- melancholiaDeep sadness or gloom; melancholy.
- melancholyGreat sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature.
- miseryGreat unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe.
- mourn literarySorrow, grief.
- sadness
- sorrowUnhappiness, woe.
- sorrowfulnessThe quality or state of sorrow; sadness.
- tristfulnessSadness; sorrow; melancholy.
- undelightThe condition or feeling of lacking delight; unhappiness or displeasure.
- unhappinessThe feeling of not being happy.
- woeGreat sadness or distress; a misfortune causing such sadness.
- woefareDiscontentment; sorrow; unhappiness.
- wretchednessAn unhappy state of mental or physical suffering.
- drearihead obsoleteSadness; dreariness.
- heartsore rareHeartache, misery, grief.
- mishappiness obsoleteUnhappiness; wretchedness; misery.
- prosternation obsoleteDejection; depression.
- regret obsolete
- rue archaic, dialectalSorrow; repentance; regret.
- ruth obsoleteDistress, misery, sorrow.
nounThe act of humbling or abasing oneself.
nounA low condition; weakness; inability.
- dearth
- want
- deficiency
- deficit
- inadequacy
- infrequency
- insufficiencyThe lack of sufficiency: a shortage, the state of having or being not enough (of something).
- meagernessThe state of being meager.
- nonsufficiencyInsufficiency.
- lack
- paucity
- penury
- rarenessThe property of being rare; rarity.
- rarity
- scantiness
- scarcity
- shortageA lack or deficiency; an insufficient amount.
- shortcomingA deficiency or falling short; failure to attain a goal or ideal.
- unsufficiency
nounDefecation or feces.
- excrement
- bowel movementThe feces thus produced.
- big jobs informalNumber two (the act of defecation).
- cack
- call of natureThe bodily urge to urinate or defecate.
- crap
- crapping
- defecating
- defecation
- dump
- dumping
- hod
- motion
- number two
- poo
- poohAn instance of saying "pooh".
- poopFecal matter; feces.
- purging
- sharnThe dung or manure of cattle or sheep.
- shitUsually solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels; feces.
- shittingThe act of defecating.
- sprayingThe act by which something is sprayed.
- taking a shit
- boo-booFeces.
- boom-boom euphemisticExcrement.
- BM
- cacaExcrement; feces.
- chocolate
- chocolate hot dogA piece of faeces.
- crud slang
- dirt
- do doExcrement, feces, dung.
- doo-doo
- doody
- dook
- dookie
- dooky
- droppings
- dumplings
- dung
- EarthaA female given name originating as a coinage.
- faeces
- faex
- fecal matterFeces.
- feces USDigested waste material (typically solid or semi-solid) discharged from a human or other mammal's stomach to the...
- flop
- fudge euphemistic, slangFecal matter; feces.
- ish euphemistic
- jobby slang
- muck
- ordureDung, excrement.
- poopie
- poo-poo
- poopyFaeces.
- scat
- shite
- soil
- stoolFeces; excrement.
- thostDung.
- tom titA shit.
- turd
- waste
- doing one's ease obsolete
- doing one's easement obsolete
Meaning of dejection
- noun A state of melancholy or depression; low spirits, the blues.
- noun The act of humbling or abasing oneself.
- noun A low condition; weakness; inability.
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Questions about synonyms of dejection
- What is another word for dejection?
- Dejection has 120 synonyms on Word.ws, such as ill-being, depression, misery, sorrow, grief, woe, unhappiness and melancholy.
- What does dejection mean?
- Dejection means a state of melancholy or depression; low spirits, the blues.
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