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English
Etymology
From deject + -able.
Adjective
dejectable (comparative more dejectable, superlative most dejectable)
- (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.