dejection

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun a state of melancholy depression
  2. noun solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels

Etymology

From Old French dejection, from Latin dejectio (“a casting down”). By surface analysis, deject + -ion.

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