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.
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