humilis; demissus; humilis atque demissus (faint-hearted): abjectus or abjectior; afflictus; fractus; demissus fractusque; fractus et demissus; jacens (dejected, or broken in spirit): perculsus; profligatus (deeply dejected); perculsus et abjectus: tristis: a spe alienus (void of all hope; all these epithets are applied to men, and the state of their minds). ☞ Dejectus, in this sense, belongs to poetry and post-classical prose [rare]; haud dejectus equum duci jubet; dejecti et infracti, Quint.: somewhat dejected, subtristis: grievously dejected, gravissime afflictus: to be dejected, animo esse demisso, or humili atque demisso, or abjecto, or fracto, etc.; animo dencere; animo cecidisse; esse perculso et abjecto animo; jacere (Vid: Cic., Tusc., 3, 17, in.; quid jaces? quid moeres?): to become dejected, animo demitti, or se demittere; animum demittere or contrahere; animum contrahere et demittere; animum abjicere; animum despondere: to be dejected by no danger, nulli periculo animum submittere.