different between dejection vs misery
dejection
English
Etymology
From Old French dejection, from Latin dejectio (“a casting down”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /d??d??k??n/
- (US) IPA(key): /d??d??k??n/
- Rhymes: -?k??n
Noun
dejection (countable and uncountable, plural dejections)
- A state of melancholy or depression; low spirits, the blues.
- The act of humbling or abasing oneself.
- Bishop Pearson
- Adoration implies submission and dejection.
- Bishop Pearson
- A low condition; weakness; inability.
- Arbuthnot
- a dejection of appetite
- Arbuthnot
- (medicine, archaic) Defecation or feces.
Synonyms
- (melancholy, depression, low spirits): despondency, downheartedness, crestfallenness
- (defecation or feces): excrement, bowel movement
Translations
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misery
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French miserie (modern: misère), from Latin miseria, from miser. Doublet of misère.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?m?z(?)??/
- (General American) enPR: m?z??-r?, m?z?r?, IPA(key): /?m?z(?)?i/
- Hyphenation: mis?ery
Noun
misery (countable and uncountable, plural miseries)
- Great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe.
- (US and Britain, dialects) A bodily ache or pain.
- 1868, John Vestal Hadley, Seven Months a Prisoner, page 15:
- [...] and I had a misery in my left breast and shoulder. I was hurt, but knew not how or how much.
- 1868, John Vestal Hadley, Seven Months a Prisoner, page 15:
- Cause of misery; calamity; misfortune.
- (Extreme) poverty.
- (archaic) greed; avarice.
Synonyms
- see Thesaurus:greed
Derived terms
- put out of one's misery
Related terms
- commiserate
- miser
- miserable
Translations
Anagrams
- Myries
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