Word Meanings - FALLEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Dropped; prostrate; degraded; ruined; decreased; dead. Some ruined temple or fallen monument. Rogers.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FALLEN)
- Prostrate
- Fallen
- flat
- procumbent
- lifeless
- ruined
- overpowered
- oppressed
- prone
- Wretched
- Miserable
- debased
- humiliated
- fallen
- pitiable
- mean
- paltry
- worthless
- vile
- despicable
- contemptible
- sorrowful
- afflicted
- melancholy
- dejected
Related words: (words related to FALLEN)
- 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.