dejected

Meanings

Verb

• lower someone's spirits; make downhearted
• simple past and past participle of deject

Adjective

• affected or marked by low spirits
  • "is dejected but trying to look cheerful"

Adj

• Sad and dispirited.

Synonyms

atrabiliary, atrabilious, blitheless, blue, bummed out, cast down, chapfallen, cheerless, chopfallen, crestfallen, cut up, damp, deject, dejectable, dejected, demoralise, demoralize, depress, depressed, despondent, disconsolate, disgruntled, disheartened, dismal, dismay, dispirit, doleful, dolesome, down, down in the dumps, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, downsome, dull, elegiac, elegious, forlorn, get down, gloomy, glum, grief-stricken, grieving, heartsick, heartsore, heavy-hearted, inconsolable, infelicitous, jawfallen, joyless, lachrymose, lamentful, low, low-spirited, lugubrious, lumpish, melancholic, melancholy, miserable, moody, mopey, morose, mournful, passionate, plaintive, querulous, sad, saddened, saturnine, shattered, solemn, sombre, sorrow-ridden, sorrowful, sorrowsome, spiritless, sullen, threnetic, threnetical, triste, tristful, uncheerful, uncheery, unconsolable, unhappy, unlively, wistful, woe, woebegone, woeful, wretched

Antonyms

elate, elated, hopeful