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# dejected

«dejected» in Mova's school dictionary: **Sad and without hope, often after a failure or a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (dejected, more dejected, most dejected)

### meaning for a pupil

Sad and without hope, often after a failure or a disappointment; low in spirits. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dejected/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Used in stories to tell the reader a character feels let down and sad: shoulders drooping, head hanging. Common in sports reports for the losing team. Mole is dejected when he cannot visit his old home; Toad is dejected in prison.

### examples

- The team walked off the pitch looking dejected. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dejected/#x1)
- Toad sat dejected in his prison cell. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dejected/#x2)
- She felt dejected when she wasn't picked for the play. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dejected/#x3)
- The dejected puppy lay by the door. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dejected/#x4)
- After losing the spelling bee he looked dejected. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dejected/#x5)
- Mole followed the Rat in a dejected way. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dejected/#x6)
- Don't look so dejected, you can try again! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dejected/#x7)
- The dejected children walked home in the rain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dejected/#x8)
- A WAYFARING MAN, traveling in the desert, met a woman standing alone and terribly dejected. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dejected/#x9)

### note

Adjective; noun: dejection. Similar words: downcast, despondent, glum, gloomy. It comes from a Latin word meaning «thrown down».

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «dejected» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dejected/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.