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Word Meanings - FALLEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Dropped; prostrate; degraded; ruined; decreased; dead. Some ruined temple or fallen monument. Rogers.

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  • DEJECTION
    1. A casting down; depression. Hallywell. 2. The act of humbling or abasing one's self. Adoration implies submission and dejection. Bp. Pearson. 3. Lowness of spirits occasioned by grief or misfortune; mental depression; melancholy. What besides,
  • LIFELESS
    Destitute of life, or deprived of life; not containing, or inhabited by, living beings or vegetation; dead, or apparently dead; spiritless; powerless; dull; as, a lifeless carcass; lifeless matter; a lifeless desert; a lifeless wine; a lifeless
  • PROSTRATE
    Trailing on the ground; procumbent. (more info) prostrate; pro before, forward + sternere to spread out, throw down. 1. Lying at length, or with the body extended on the ground or other surface; stretched out; as, to sleep prostrate Elyot.
  • DEJECTORY
    1. Having power, or tending, to cast down. 2. Promoting evacuations by stool. Ferrand.
  • MISERABLENESS
    The state or quality of being miserable.
  • AFFLICTIVELY
    In an afflictive manner.
  • MISERABLE
    1. Very unhappy; wretched. What hopes delude thee, miserable man Dryden. 2. Causing unhappiness or misery. What 's more miserable than discontent Shak. 3. Worthless; mean; despicable; as, a miserable fellow; a miserable dinner. Miserable comforters
  • DEBASINGLY
    In a manner to debase.
  • DESPICABLE
    Fit or deserving to be despised; contemptible; mean; vile; worthless; as, a despicable man; despicable company; a despicable gift. Syn. -- Contemptible; mean; vile; worthless; pitiful; paltry; sordid; low; base. See Contemptible.
  • AFFLICTIVE
    Giving pain; causing continued or repeated pain or grief; distressing. "Jove's afflictive hand." Pope. Spreads slow disease, and darts afflictive pain. Prior.
  • AFFLICTING
    Grievously painful; distressing; afflictive; as, an afflicting event. -- Af*flict"ing*ly, adv.
  • DEBASED
    Turned upside down from its proper position; inverted; reversed.
  • AFFLICTION
    1. The cause of continued pain of body or mind, as sickness, losses, etc.; an instance of grievous distress; a pain or grief. To repay that money will be a biting affliction. Shak. 2. The state of being afflicted; a state of pain, distress, or
  • PROCUMBENT
    Lying on the ground, but without putting forth roots; trailing; prostrate; as, a procumbent stem. (more info) to fall, bend, or lean forward; pro forward + cumbere , 1. Lying down, or on the face; prone. " Procumbent each obeyed." Cowper.
  • OPPRESSION
    1. The act of oppressing, or state of being oppressed. 2. That which oppresses; a hardship or injustice; cruelty; severity; tyranny. "The multitude of oppressions." Job xxxv. 9. 3. A sense of heaviness or obstruction in the body or mind;
  • CONTEMPTIBLENESS
    The state or quality of being contemptible, or of being despised.
  • FALLENCY
    An exception. Jer. Taylor.
  • OPPRESSOR
    One who oppresses; one who imposes unjust burdens on others; one who harasses others with unjust laws or unreasonable severity. The orphan pines while the oppressor feeds. Shak. To relieve the oppressed and to punish the oppressor. Swift.
  • FALLEN
    Dropped; prostrate; degraded; ruined; decreased; dead. Some ruined temple or fallen monument. Rogers.
  • WRETCHEDLY
    In a wretched manner; miserably; despicable.
  • PRUINOUS
    Frosty; pruinose.
  • JAW-FALLEN
    Dejected; chopfallen.
  • CRESTFALLEN
    1. With hanging head; hence, dispirited; dejected; cowed. Let it make thee crestfullen; Ay, and allay this thy abortive pride. Shak. 2. Having the crest, or upper part of the neck, hanging to one side; -- said of a horse.

 

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