#837.  Dejection. —­ N. dejection; dejectedness &c. adj.; depression,
prosternation|; lowness of spirits, depression of spirits; weight on the spirits, oppression on the spirits, damp on the spirits; low spirits, bad spirits, drooping spirits, depressed spirits; heart sinking; heaviness of heart, failure of heart.
     heaviness &c. adj.; infestivity[obs3], gloom; weariness &c. 841;
taedium vitae, disgust of life; mal du pays &c. (regret) 833; anhedonia[obs3].
     melancholy; sadness &c. adj.; il penseroso[It], melancholia,
dismals[obs3], blues, lachrymals[obs3], mumps[obs3], dumps, blue devils, doldrums; vapors, megrims, spleen, horrors, hypochondriasis[Med], pessimism; la maladie sans maladie [Fr]; despondency, slough of Despond; disconsolateness &c. adj.; hope deferred, blank despondency; voiceless woe.
     prostration of soul; broken heart; despair &c. 859; cave of despair,
cave of Trophonius
     demureness &c. adj.; gravity, solemnity; long face, grave face.
     hypochondriac, seek sorrow, self-tormentor, heautontimorumenos[obs3],
malade imaginaire[Fr], medecin tant pis[Fr]; croaker, pessimist; mope, mopus[obs3].
     [Cause of dejection] affliction &c. 830; sorry sight; memento
mori[Lat]; damper, wet blanket, Job’s comforter. 
     V. be dejected &c. adj.; grieve; mourn &c. (lament) 839; take on, give
way, lose heart, despond, droop, sink.
     lower, look downcast, frown, pout; hang down the head; pull a long
face, make a long face; laugh on the wrong side of the mouth; grin a ghastly smile; look blue, look like a drowned man; lay to heart, take to heart.
     mope, brood over; fret; sulk; pine, pine away; yearn; repine &c.
(regret) 833; despair &c. 859.
     refrain from laughter, keep one’s countenance; be grave, look grave
&c. adj.; repress a smile.
     depress; discourage, dishearten; dispirit; damp, dull, deject, lower,
sink, dash, knock down, unman, prostrate, break one’s heart; frown upon; cast a gloom, cast a shade on; sadden; damp one’s hopes, dash one’s hopes, wither one’s hopes; weigh on the mind, lie heavy on the mind, prey on the mind, weigh on the spirits, lie heavy on the spirits, prey on the spirits; damp the spirits, depress the spirits. 
     Adj. cheerless, joyless, spiritless; uncheerful, uncheery[obs3];
unlively[obs3]; unhappy &c. 828; melancholy, dismal, somber, dark, gloomy, triste[Fr], clouded, murky, lowering, frowning, lugubrious, funereal, mournful, lamentable, dreadful.
     dreary, flat; dull, dull as a beetle, dull as ditchwater[obs3];
depressing &c. v.
     “melancholy as a gib cat”; oppressed with melancholy, a prey to
melancholy; downcast, downhearted; down in the mouth, down in one’s luck; heavy-hearted; in the dumps, down in the dumps, in the suds, in the sulks, in the doldrums; in doleful dumps, in bad humor; sullen; mumpish[obs3], dumpish, mopish[obs3], moping; moody, glum; sulky &c.