What is the Latin word for dejected?

The usual Latin words for “dejected” are humilis, dēmittō, abiciō; also afflīgō, frangō, iaceō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.

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“dejected” in Latin

humilislow, lowly, small, slight; shallow; base, mean, humble, obscure, poor, needy, insignificant, low; short, not tall (of ph dēmittōto send or bring down, cause to hang or fall down; drop, flow, shed, sag, let fall; to sink, lower, put down; to cast do abiciōto throw or hurl down or away, cast or push away or aside; to give up, abandon; expose; discard; to humble, degrade, red afflīgōto strike, beat, dash (against); cast or throw down, prostrate; to afflict, damage, injure, crush, break or ruin; to hum frangōto break, shatter; to break, shatter (a promise, a treaty, someone's ideas (dreams, projects), someone's spirit); to bre iaceōto lie prostrate, lie down; recline; to be sick, lie ill; to linger, stop, tarry, remain percellōto beat down; to overturn or upset; to strike or smite prōflīgōto strike or dash to the ground; to overthrow, overcome, conquer; to finish, conclude, resolve, put an end to trīstissad, unhappy, melancholy, morose; sorrowful, mournful; disagreeable, harsh, bitter (of taste)

Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864

dejected

humilis; demissus; humilis atque demissus (faint-hearted): abjectus or abjectior; afflictus; fractus; demissus fractusque; fractus et demissus; jacens (dejected, or broken in spirit): perculsus; profligatus (deeply dejected); perculsus et abjectus: tristis: a spe alienus (void of all hope; all these epithets are applied to men, and the state of their minds). ☞ Dejectus, in this sense, belongs to poetry and post-classical prose [rare]; haud dejectus equum duci jubet; dejecti et infracti, Quint.: somewhat dejected, subtristis: grievously dejected, gravissime afflictus: to be dejected, animo esse demisso, or humili atque demisso, or abjecto, or fracto, etc.; animo dencere; animo cecidisse; esse perculso et abjecto animo; jacere (Vid: Cic., Tusc., 3, 17, in.; quid jaces? quid moeres?): to become dejected, animo demitti, or se demittere; animum demittere or contrahere; animum contrahere et demittere; animum abjicere; animum despondere: to be dejected by no danger, nulli periculo animum submittere.

Quick answer

What is the Latin word for dejected?: The usual Latin words for “dejected” are humilis, dēmittō, abiciō; also afflīgō, frangō, iaceō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.

Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.