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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
dejected
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Greg sounded dejected. "Anything wrong?" I said.
▪ He looked utterly dejected when she told him he'd failed again.
▪ Kirkwood was a particularly dejected figure after their defeat.
▪ My 12-year-old came home from school red-eyed and dejected.
▪ One glance at the doctor's dejected expression answered my question.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ 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.
▪ Behind her, the backdrop depicted some dejected and very limp trees, possibly willows that had practised their weeping rather well.
▪ Last of all came Fiver, dejected and reluctant as a sparrow in the frost.
▪ She gazed with compassion at the two dejected figures.
▪ The unemployed stood at street corners, dejected.
▪ Then they walked away, humbled and dejected.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dejected

Deject \De*ject"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dejected; p. pr. & vb. n. Dejecting.] [L. dejectus, p. p. of dejicere to throw down; de- + jacere to throw. See Jet a shooting forth.]

  1. To cast down. [Obs. or Archaic]

    Christ dejected himself even unto the hells.
    --Udall.

    Sometimes she dejects her eyes in a seeming civility; and many mistake in her a cunning for a modest look.
    --Fuller.

  2. To cast down the spirits of; to dispirit; to discourage; to dishearten.

    Nor think, to die dejects my lofty mind.
    --Pope.

Dejected

Dejected \De*ject"ed\, a. Cast down; afflicted; low-spirited; sad; as, a dejected look or countenance. -- De*ject"ed*ly, adv. -- De*ject"ed*ness, n.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
dejected

"depressed at heart," 1580s, past participle adjective from deject. Related: Dejectedly (1610s).

Wiktionary
dejected
  1. sad and dispirited. v

  2. (en-past of: deject)

WordNet
dejected

adj. affected or marked by low spirits; "is dejected but trying to look cheerful" [ant: elated]

Usage examples of "dejected".

Nevertheless, I walked about from door to door like a dejected beggar, till I got the almous deed of a civil reception--and who would have thought it?

Yet, although quite practicable, it would be a most morbid and dejected existence, without vitality or even thought, but only paramentation, our chief companions paramental entities of azoic origin more vicious than spiders or weasels.

While I was waiting for him, Marina came in with a dejected countenance, enquiring how she had deserved my contempt.

STANDING beside the truck, Durand looked very dejected when Cranston approached, bringing Fred along.

It was only when, to prevent his attempting prematurely to escape, Phillip assigned an elderly convict to act as his guardian and had one of his wrists fettered, that Manly became sullen and dejected .

Dejected looks, flaggy beards, singing in the ears, old, wrinkled, harsh, much troubled with wind.

Chaff watched as it sailed out of the cove, followed by the slugging hogger with its cargo of wounded and dejected men.

Chriek, the Times iconographer, was standing near by, holding a sunshade and looking dejected.

The haggard, distressed countenances of these miserable, complaining, dejected, living skeletons, crying for medical aid and food, and cursing their Government for its refusal to exchange prisoners, and the ghastly corpses, with their glazed eye balls staring up into vacant space, with the flies swarming down their open and grinning mouths, and over their ragged clothes, infested with numerous lice, as they lay amongst the sick and dying, formed a picture of helpless, hopeless misery which it would be impossible to portray bywords or by the brush.

At last a northwest wind drove it off the shore, and on the second clear day the little steamer Moonbeam, engaged in the porgy fishery, came up to the cove with a small sloop in tow and three dejected, exhausted, and thoroughly disgusted navigators on board.

That night, alone in my bed, I was still dejected, still wondering how I could have been such a simp to think for a moment that a fragrance containing a sex hormone could be sold at perfume counters in department stores.

Everything about him, from his light chestnut hair, so thick and upspringing that it seemed blown back on his head, to the short curve of his upper lip under the faint moustache, looked dejected and listless.

Countess and Mademoiselle Bearn, having looked, for a moment, with surprise, on her dejected countenance, began, as usual, to talk of trifles, while the eyes of Lady Blanche asked much of her friend, who could only reply by a mournful smile.

Dejected, Burl kicked a loose pebble and watched it rattle against a column near the main control board.

But Marge still looked dejected, and Dickie still tried to make it up by asking her often to the house now for lunch and dinner.