Alex Spanos

I was on the field praising quarterback Dan Fouts during a ceremony to retire his number. Boos began shaking the stadium. It was a moment of misery like I'd never experienced before. Afterward, dejection hung over me for days.

American Businessman

Gustave Flaubert

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

French Novelist

Use 'dejection' to describe a heavy, sinking emotional condition, more intense than just feeling sad.

Emotional State

'Dejection' often implies someone has lost hope and feels helpless or discouraged.

Lack of Hope

In physics, 'dejection' is about movement, specifically something being forced out or expelled.

Forced Outward

The physics meaning of 'dejection' is commonly used in academic or technical discussions, not everyday conversation.

Academic Context

Use 'dejection' to express the act of feeling a significant loss or disappointment.

Expressing Loss

'Dejection' implies that the feeling of loss is visible to others, seen in behavior or facial expressions.

Visible Emotion

The medical/archaic meaning refers to waste expelled from the body, particularly feces.

Bodily Waste

This medical sense of 'dejection' is old-fashioned and not commonly used in modern language.