Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Dejection

Nouns
  • 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. Weariness
  • taedium vitae, disgust of life
  • mal du pays etc. (regret) Regret
  • anhedonia. melancholy
  • sadness etc. adj.
  • melancholia, dismals, blues, lachrymals, mumps, dumps, blue devils, doldrums
  • vapors, megrims, spleen, horrors, hypochondriasis [Med.], pessimism
  • despondency, slough of Despond
  • disconsolateness etc. adj.
  • hope deferred, blank despondency
  • voiceless woe. prostration of soul
  • broken heart
  • despair etc. [Absence, want or loss of hope.] Hopelessness
  • cave of despair, cave of Trophonius demureness etc. adj.
  • gravity, solemnity
  • long face, grave face. hypochondriac, seek sorrow, self-tormentor, heautontimorumenos
  • croaker, pessimist
  • mope, mopus. [Cause of dejection] affliction etc. [Capability of giving pain; cause or source of pain] Painfulness
  • sorry sight
  • damper, wet blanket, Job's comforter.
Verbs
  • be dejected etc. adj.
  • grieve
  • mourn etc. (lament) [Expression of pain.] Lamentation
  • 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) Regret
  • despair etc. [Absence, want or loss of hope.] Hopelessness. 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.
Adjectives
  • cheerless, joyless, spiritless
  • uncheerful, uncheery
  • unlively
  • unhappy etc. Pain
  • melancholy, dismal, somber, dark, gloomy, 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) Discontent
  • 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. Weariness
  • discouraged, disheartened
  • desponding
  • chapfallen, chopfallen, jaw fallen, crest fallen. sad, pensive, 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, sick at heart
  • soul sick, heart sick
  • in despair etc. [Absence, want or loss of hope.] Hopelessness
  • lost. overcome
  • broken down, borne down, bowed down
  • heartstricken etc. (mental suffering) Pain
  • cut up, dashed, sunk
  • unnerved, unmanned
  • down fallen, downtrodden
  • broken-hearted
  • careworn.
Adverbs
  • with a long face, with tears in one's eyes
  • sadly etc. adj..
Phrases
  • 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].