dejection

Noun

1. A state of melancholy or depression; low spirits, the blues.

   Synonyms: despondency downheartedness crestfallenness blueness tristesse mirthless blues dejection depression distress dolefulness drearihead forlornness grief heartsore ill-being infelicity melancholia melancholy misery mishappiness mourn prosternation regret

2. The act of humbling or abasing oneself.
   • Adoration implies submission and dejection, so that while we worship we cast down ourselves; there must be therefore some great eminence in the object worshipped, or else we should dishonor our own nature in the worship...

   Synonyms: abasement humiliation submission

3. A low condition; weakness; inability.
   • Meat remaining in the stomach undigested, dejection of appetite, wind coming upwards, are signs of a phlegmatick constitution. - 1732, John Arbuthnot, Practical Rules of Diet in the Various Constitutions and Diseases of...

   Synonyms: dearth want deficiency deficit dejection inadequacy infrequency insufficiency meagerness nonsufficiency lack paucity penury rareness rarity scantiness scarcity shortage shortcoming unsufficiency

4. Defecation or feces.
   • No dejection since his entrance, nor has he passed urine. - 1855, Austin Flint, Clinical Reports on Continued Fever Based on Analyses of One Hundred and Sixty-Four Cases, Linday & Blakiston, First Clinical Report on...
   • His dejections were frequent, loose, changing in character from hour to hour, made up of undigested food, of mucus and watery fluid, varying in color, mostly green, and never healthy in consistence, color, or odor. -...
   • Chorera infantum may begin as an attack of acute indigestion, or, what is more frequently the case, suddenly, with severe vomiting and copious dejections, high fever and rapid prostration. - 1921, Charles Signmund Raue,...

   Synonyms: excrement bowel movement big jobs cack call of nature crap crapping defecating defecation doing one's ease doing one's easement dump dumping easement hod motion number two poo pooh poop purging sharn shit shitting