different between dejected vs amort

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??d??kt?d/

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin deicio

Adjective

dejected (comparative more dejected, superlative most dejected)

1. Sad and dispirited.
   • 1818, Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs, Philadelphia: T.S. Manning, Volume I, p. 73,^[1]

     I pitied poor Miss Read’s unfortunate situation, who was generally dejected, seldom cheerful, and avoided company […]

Synonyms

• dejectable (rare)
• despondent
• disheartened
• down in the mouth

Antonyms

• hopeful

Derived terms

• dejectedly

Translations

Verb

dejected

1. simple past tense and past participle of deject

English

Etymology

From Middle French à la mort (“to the death”) reinterpreted as all amort.

Adjective

amort

1. (archaic, literary) As if dead; depressed

   Synonyms: lifeless, spiritless, dejected

   • c. 1593, William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, Act IV, Scene 3,^[1]

     How fares my Kate? What, sweeting, all amort?

   • 1595, George Peele, The Old Wives’ Tale, The Malone Society Reprints, 1908, lines 3-5,^[2]

     How nowe fellowe Franticke, what all a mort? Doth this sadnes become thy madnes?

   • 1737, Susanna Centlivre, The Perjur’d Husband, London: W. Feales, Act IV, Scene 2, p. 56,^[3]

     What, all amort, Signior, no Courage left?

   • 1890, Francis Saltus Saltus, “The Harem” in Shadows and Ideals, Buffalo: Charles Wells Moulton, p. 338,^[4]

     Here repose houris, dreamlike fair;

     Eyes half amort by amorous care;

     Marvels of flesh, wonders of hair!

Anagrams

• Morta, Toram, morat, torma