different between wounded vs dejected
wounded
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?wu?nd?d/
- Hyphenation: wound?ed
Verb
wounded
- simple past tense and past participle of wound
- 1913: Valmiki, The Ramayana, (translated by Sister Nivedita and Ananda Coomaraswamy)
- Nila, Agni's son, brandishing an uptorn tree, rushed on Prahasta; but he wounded the monkey with showers of arows.
- 1913: Valmiki, The Ramayana, (translated by Sister Nivedita and Ananda Coomaraswamy)
Adjective
wounded
- Suffering from a wound, especially one acquired in battle from a weapon, such as a gun or a knife.
- A wounded soldier.
- The wounded lay on stretchers waiting for surgery.
- Every single hospital was taking in wounded from the front.
- 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island:
- […] he was deadly pale, and the blood-stained bandage round his head told that he had recently been wounded, and still more recently dressed.
- (figuratively) Suffering from an emotional injury.
- My wounded pride never recovered from her rejection.
- (physics) Of a particle: having undergone an inelastic collision.
- a wounded nucleon
Synonyms
- (suffering from a wound): hurt, imbrued, injured; see also Thesaurus:wounded
- (suffering from an emotional injury): damaged, hurt, traumatised
- (having undergone an inelastic collision):
Derived terms
- walking wounded
Translations
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dejected
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /d??d??kt?d/
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin deicio
Adjective
dejected (comparative more dejected, superlative most dejected)
- 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 […]
- 1818, Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs, Philadelphia: T.S. Manning, Volume I, p. 73,[1]
Synonyms
- dejectable (rare)
- despondent
- disheartened
- down in the mouth
Antonyms
- hopeful
Derived terms
- dejectedly
Translations
Verb
dejected
- simple past tense and past participle of deject
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