dejected

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishdejectedde‧jec‧ted /dɪˈdʒektɪd/ adjective SAD/UNHAPPYunhappy, disappointed, or sad The unemployed stood at street corners, dejected.► see thesaurus at sad —dejectedly adverb —dejection /dɪˈdʒekʃən/ noun [uncountable]Examples from the Corpusdejected• The unemployed stood at street corners, dejected.• Then they walked away, humbled and dejected.• My 12-year-old came home from school red-eyed and dejected.• Last of all came Fiver, dejected and reluctant as a sparrow in the frost.• Behind her, the backdrop depicted some dejected and very limp trees, possibly willows that had practised their weeping rather well.• Greg sounded dejected. "Anything wrong?" I said.• One glance at the doctor's dejected expression answered my question.• Kirkwood was a particularly dejected figure after their defeat.• She gazed with compassion at the two dejected figures.• A dejected Hammam is prepared for the worst - sacrificing Premier League status and possibly even suffering successive seasons of relegation.• And I knew that I'd be seeing it in my more dejected moments for a long time to come.• He looked utterly dejected when she told him he'd failed again.Origin dejected (1400-1500) Latin dejectus, from jacere “to throw”

单词	dejected
释义	dejected From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishdejectedde‧jec‧ted /dɪˈdʒektɪd/ adjective SAD/UNHAPPYunhappy, disappointed, or sad The unemployed stood at street corners, dejected.► see thesaurus at sad —dejectedly adverb —dejection /dɪˈdʒekʃən/ noun [uncountable]Examples from the Corpusdejected• The unemployed stood at street corners, dejected.• Then they walked away, humbled and dejected.• My 12-year-old came home from school red-eyed and dejected.• Last of all came Fiver, dejected and reluctant as a sparrow in the frost.• Behind her, the backdrop depicted some dejected and very limp trees, possibly willows that had practised their weeping rather well.• Greg sounded dejected. "Anything wrong?" I said.• One glance at the doctor's dejected expression answered my question.• Kirkwood was a particularly dejected figure after their defeat.• She gazed with compassion at the two dejected figures.• A dejected Hammam is prepared for the worst - sacrificing Premier League status and possibly even suffering successive seasons of relegation.• And I knew that I'd be seeing it in my more dejected moments for a long time to come.• He looked utterly dejected when she told him he'd failed again.Origin dejected (1400-1500) Latin dejectus, from jacere “to throw”
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