depress, deject, cast down, get down, dismay, dispirit, demoralize, demoralise
(verb) lower someone’s spirits; make downhearted; “These news depressed her”; “The bad state of her child’s health demoralizes her”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
deject (third-person singular simple present dejects, present participle dejecting, simple past and past participle dejected)
(transitive) Make sad or dispirited.
(obsolete, transitive) To cast down.
Source: Wiktionary
De*ject", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dejected; p. pr. & vb. n. Dejecting.] Etym: [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.
De*ject", a. Etym: [L. dejectus, p. p.]
Definition: Dejected. [Obs.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 November 2024
(adjective) concerned primarily with theories or hypotheses rather than practical considerations; “theoretical science”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
