dejectable

dejectable

English

Etymology

deject +‎ -able

Adjective

dejectable (comparative more dejectable, superlative most dejectable)

1. (rare) dejected
   • 1832, Orlando Hodgson, Hodgson's National Songster, etc (page 225)

     John Jones was a Farmer and highly respectable,
     Always in spirits and never dejectable,
     One of these men who would never annoy himself,
     But o'er his pipe and his glass would enjoy himself.

   • 1943, David Cheney, Bow Strings (page 273)

     He was mounted upon an ass, a poor dejectable beast, whose back swayed beneath the mercer's weight as I 'neath your heavy wit, till his poor belly all but touched the ground.