deject

Other forms of deject

past tense

dejected·

present participle

dejecting·

third person

dejects·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about deject

What does deject mean?

deject means "lower someone's spirits; make downhearted".

How many syllables are in deject?

deject has 2 syllables: de-ject. The stress falls on "ject". In IPA it is /dɪˈdʒɛkt/.

What is another word for deject?

Close synonyms include depress, cast down, get down, dismay, dispirit. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is deject a common word?

deject is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with deject?

5 words rhyme with deject. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.