Dejection vs Downcast - What's the difference?
dejection | downcast |
a state of melancholy or depression; low spirits, the blues
The act of humbling or abasing oneself.
A low condition; weakness; inability.
(medicine, archaic) Defecation or feces.
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, year_published=2010
, publisher=Applewood Books
, author=James Jackson
, title=Another Letter to a Young Physician
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(of eyes) Looking downwards.
* Dryden
(of a person) Feeling despondent.
(computing) A cast from supertype to subtype.
(obsolete) A melancholy look.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
(mining) A ventilating shaft down which the air passes in circulating through a mine.
(obsolete) To cast or throw up; to turn upward.
(Scotland) To taunt; to reproach; to upbraid.
(computing) To cast from supertype to subtype.
As nouns the difference between dejection and downcast
is that dejection is dejection, defecation while downcast is (computing) a cast from supertype to subtype.As an adjective downcast is
(of eyes) looking downwards.As a verb downcast is
(obsolete) to cast or throw up; to turn upward.dejection
English
Noun
(en noun)- Adoration implies submission and dejection . — Bishop Pearson.
- A dejection of appetite. — Arbuthnot.
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citation, pageurl=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=usPFfQCrZmcC&pg=PA103&dq=dejections , isbn=9781429044141 , page=103 , passage=His dejections were frequent, loose, changing in character from hour to hour, made up of undigested food, of mucus and watery fluid, varying in color, mostly green, and never healthy in consistence, color, or odor.}}
citation, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=FTfWiens6csC&pg=PA206&dq=dejections , isbn=9788170211761 , pages=205-206 , passage=Chorera infantum may begin as an attack of acute indigestion, or, what is more frequently the case, suddenly, with severe vomiting and copious dejections , high fever and rapid prostration.}}
Synonyms
* (defecation or feces) excrement, bowel movementdowncast
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- 'Tis love, said she; and then my downcast eyes, / And guilty dumbness, witnessed my surprise.
Noun
(en noun)- That downcast of thine eye.