Home › Words › D › dejecterdejecter/dɪˈdʒɛktə(ɹ)/dejecter means something that casts down or diminishes.dejecter is pronounced /dɪˈdʒɛktə(ɹ)/.EtymologyFrom deject (“cast down”) + -er.nounSomething that casts down or diminishes.e.g.“The Morall mans dejecters likewise three, / Wine, Woman, and the love of Vanitie.” — 1631, “The illustration to the Frontispiece”, in Richard Berkeley, The Felicitie of Man, or, his Summum Bonum:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.deject 81% match — Make sad or dispirited. vs dejecter →dejectable 74% match — dejected vs dejecter →dejectly 71% match — In a dejected manner. vs dejecter →dejecture 70% match — That which is voided; excrement. vs dejecter →dejection 67% match — A state of melancholy or depression; low spirits, the blues. vs dejecter →dejectedness 66% match — The state or quality of being dejected. vs dejecter →dejected 65% match — Sad and dispirited. vs dejecter →dejecta 63% match — any liquid or solid waste matter that is emanated, shed or discharged from the body. Dejecta include urine, faeces, sputum, pus, mucus, skin sloughing, lochia; their discharge can be nasal, aural, by expectoration, urethral, vaginal and so on. vs dejecter →