dejection
Plural: dejections
Noun
- a state of melancholy depression
- solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels
- A state of melancholy or depression; low spirits, the blues.
- The act of humbling or abasing oneself.
- A low condition; weakness; inability.
- Defecation or feces.
Origin / Etymology
From Old French dejection, from Latin dejectio (“a casting down”).
Synonyms
BM, faecal matter, faeces, fecal matter, feces, ordure, stool, Eartha, Eartha Kitt, abasement, big jobs, blueness, blues, boo-boo, boom-boom, bowel movement, caca, cack, call of nature, chocolate, chocolate hot dog, crap, crapping, crestfallenness, crud, danna, dearth, defecating, defecation, deficiency, deficit, dejection, depression, despondency, dirt, distress, do do, doing one's ease, doing one's easement, dolefulness, doo-doo, doody, dook, dookie, dooky, downheartedness, drearihead, droppings, dump, dumping, dumplings, dung, easement, excrement, faex, flop, forlornness, fudge, gong, grief, guano, heartsore, hod, humiliation, ill-being, inadequacy, infelicity, infrequency, insufficiency, ish, jobby, lack, log, meagerness, melancholia, melancholy, merd, misery, mishappiness, motion, mourn, muck, nature, night soil, nonsufficiency, number two, paucity, penury, poo, poo-poo, pooh, poop, poopie, poopy, prosternation, pure, purging, rareness, rarity, regret, rue, ruth, sadness, scantiness, scarcity, scat, sharn, shit, shite, shitting, shortage, shortcoming, soil, sorrow, sorrowfulness, spraying, submission, taking a shit, thost, tom tit, tristfulness, turd, undelight, unhappiness, unsufficiency, want, waste, woe, woefare, wretchedness
Scrabble Score: 19
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