Dejection vs Sullen - What's the difference?
dejection | sullen |
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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Having a brooding ill temper; sulky.
* Prior
Gloomy; dismal; foreboding.
* 1593 , , IV. v. 88:
Sluggish; slow.
* Sir Walter Scott
(obsolete) Lonely; solitary; desolate.
(obsolete) Mischievous; malignant; unpropitious.
* Dryden
(obsolete) Obstinate; intractable.
* Tillotson
(obsolete) One who is solitary, or lives alone; a hermit.
Sullen feelings or manners; sulks; moroseness.
* 1593 , , II. i. 139:
As nouns the difference between dejection and sullen
is that dejection is a state of melancholy or depression; low spirits, the blues while sullen is one who is solitary, or lives alone; a hermit.As an adjective sullen is
having a brooding ill temper; sulky.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 movementsullen
English
Adjective
(er)- And sullen I forsook the imperfect feast.
- Our solemn hymns to sullen dirges change;
- (Milton)
- The larger stream was placid, and even sullen , in its course.
- Such sullen planets at my birth did shine.
- Things are as sullen as we are.
Synonyms
* sulky, moroseAntonyms
* cheerful * content * lighthearted * pleasedNoun
(en noun)- (Piers Plowman)
- to have the sullens
- And let them die that age and sullens have;