dejected
If you're ejected from an important game, you're going to feel dejected. If you're rejected by the love of your life, you'll feel dejected again.
Dejected goes beyond down––it's having given up hope. "After the theater was burned down by Mrs. Jud, the deranged school secretary, the drama students were too dejected even to sing "Pore Jud is Daid" from Oklahoma, the only song that might have made them feel better."
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affected or marked by low spirits“is dejected but trying to look cheerful”synonyms:amortutterly cast downblue, depressed, dispirited, down, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, gloomy, grim, low, low-spiritedfilled with melancholy and despondencyglummoody and melancholicunhappyexperiencing or marked by or causing sadness or sorrow or discontentantonyms:elatedexultantly proud and joyful; in high spiritsexultant, exulting, jubilant, prideful, rejoicing, triumphal, triumphantjoyful and proud especially because of triumph or successsublimelifted up or set highupliftedexalted emotionally especially with prideeuphoriccharacterized by an exaggerated feeling of well-being or elationhappyenjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasurejoyousfull of or characterized by joy
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Twelve-year-old Jonas lives in a regimented community that is free from pain and suffering — but also free from joy, independence, and even color. When he is appointed the community's Receiver of Memory, Jonas begins to question everything he has been taught.