DEJECTION

• DEJECTION (noun)
  The noun DEJECTION has 2 senses:

1. a state of melancholy depression
2. solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels

  Familiarity information: DEJECTION used as a noun is rare.

• DEJECTION (noun)

Meaning:

A state of melancholy depression

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("dejection" is a kind of...):

depression (a mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity)

Meaning:

Solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

BM; faecal matter; faeces; fecal matter; feces; ordure; dejection; stool

Hypernyms ("dejection" is a kind of...):

body waste; excrement; excreta; excretion; excretory product (waste matter (as urine or sweat but especially feces) discharged from the body)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dejection"):

dog do; dog shit; dog turd; doggy do (fecal droppings from a dog)

crap; dirt; poop; shit; shite; turd (obscene terms for feces)

droppings; dung; muck (fecal matter of animals)

meconium (thick dark green mucoid material that is the first feces of a newborn child)

melaena; melena (abnormally dark tarry feces containing blood (usually from gastrointestinal bleeding))