deject
/dɪˈdʒɛkt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.11 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "[…] the Thoughts of my Friends, and native Country, and the Improbability of ever seeing them again, made me very melancholy; and dejected me to that Degree, that sometimes I could not forbear indulging my Grief in private, and bursting out into a Flood of Tears."
- "On the other hand, there is nothing which dejects school children quite so much as failure."
- "[…] sometimes she dejects her eyes in a seeming civility; and many mistake in her a cunning for a modest look."
- "Princely wisdom, then, Dejects his watchful eye; and from the hand Of feeble justice, ineffectual, drop The sword and balance: mute the voice of joy, and hush'd the clamour of the busy world."
- "supplication, that is, entreatment, can be made more artificial if the speaker dejects both hands."
- "... as also we might have more feeling and sense of our sweet Saviour Jesus Christ, by the humbling and dejecting of us, thereby to make us, as more desirous of him, so him more sweet and pleasant unto us: the which thing the good Spirit of God work sensibly in all our hearts, for God's holy name's sake."
Etymology
From Old French dejeter, from Latin dēiectus, past participle of dēicere (“to throw down”), from dē- (“from, down from”) + iacere (“to throw”).
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: dēiectus
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /dɪˈdʒɛkt/