Disheartened vs Deject - What's the difference?
disheartened | deject |
Discouraged, despairing.
* 2004 , , Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage :
Make sad or dispirited.
* Benjamin Franklin
(obsolete) To cast down.
* Udall
* Fuller
As verbs the difference between disheartened and deject
is that disheartened is (dishearten) while deject is make sad or dispirited.As an adjective disheartened
is discouraged, despairing.disheartened
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- He refused to get disheartened , even when all 50 writers polled by Newsweek predicted he would lose.
Synonyms
* dejected, dispirited, down in the mouth, sad, down in the dumpsdeject
English
Verb
- I pitied poor Miss Read's unfortunate situation. She was generally dejected , seldom cheerful, and avoided company.
- Christ dejected himself even unto the hells.
- Sometimes she dejects her eyes in a seeming civility; and many mistake in her a cunning for a modest look.