What's the difference between dejected and luckless?
Dejected
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Deject
(a.) Cast down; afflicted; low-spirited; sad; as, a dejected look or countenance.
Example Sentences:
(1) Low Social group membership was positively associated with scores on the POMS Depression-Dejection and Confusion-Bewilderment Scales; and on the MCMI Avoidant, Schizotypal, Passive-Aggressive, Psychotic Thinking, Psychotic Depression, Alcohol Abuse, and Borderline Scales.
(2) After six months of sessions, when the infant manifested full-blown weaning patterns, the mother reported symptoms indicating a major depressive episode, such as pervasive dejection and rejection, listlessness, and anxiety attacks.
(3) Like any other dejected interviewee, he used Twitter to express his glass half full disappointment: "Facebook turned me down … looking forward to life's next adventure."
(4) They see angry shouting Steve Hedley-style pickets at every station, braziers at every street corner, and such general industrial unrest that there is a run on the pound and a broken and dejected Coalition government is obliged to sue for peace and throw its policies into reverse.
(5) "It is not the nicest period of my life," admitted the Dutchman, appearing more dejected than at any time in his two-and-a-half-year reign.
(6) Barry Knight lost it, completely lost it.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Looking dejected after the 5-3 play-off defeat to Ipswich Town in May 2000.
(7) Two of them, however, who reacted with dejection and a feeling of being overwhelmed, displayed lengthening of QT.
(8) I feel dejected because it is obvious that our methods are not working with them.
(9) After consoling a dejected Johnson-Thompson, who finished her heptathlon with a slow trudge round the 800m, Ennis-Hill refocused for a javelin competition that she knew could all but secure victory.
(10) After two weeks of exertion, of triumph and dejection, of glittering victory and head-down defeat that have been the focus not just of British attention but of the gaze of the entire world, the London Olympics of 2012 will soon be over – and the reflection will begin.
(11) I was in Peterborough recently, and the mood of dejection was so strong as to feel contagious, crystallised by the obligatory empty shops, forlorn young people looking for dependable work that never comes, and the issue of immigration becoming more divisive than ever.
(12) He will be a real asset for us.” For the dejected Sherwood, there was still plenty of encouragement.
(13) He comes home and shakes the rain from his coat, looking rejected and dejected.
(14) "Confusion" and "Depression-Dejection" were related to the same one factor.
(15) I kept thinking there must be an entire population of women like me, struggling day after day.” The medical visits had slowed down and Rhea felt frustrated and dejected at her painstakingly slow recovery.
(16) With their dreams shattered, dejected members of the SNP and other parties in the yes camp instead listened to a crestfallen Alex Salmond concede defeat at 6.15am.
(17) David Luiz celebrates at the end of the match as Chelsea’s Diego Costa looks dejected.
(18) In the published extracts she depicts Buckingham Palace and Clarence House as being at war, with feuding courtiers, dejected aides and dark constitutional menace should Charles III ascend the throne.
(19) The Profile measures five negative mood states, namely, "tension-anxiety," "depression-dejection," "anger-hostility," "fatigue-inertia," "confusion-bewilderment," and one positive state, "vigor-activity."
(20) We weren’t good enough to go the Champions League,” said a dejected Deila, confessing that Celtic are no better than a Europa League team.
Luckless
Definition:
(a.) Being without luck; unpropitious; unfortunate; unlucky; meeting with ill success or bad fortune; as, a luckless gamester; a luckless maid.
Example Sentences:
(1) I know a little about the jellyfishes of Australia because when I worked there for the Guardian, poisonous species such as the box jellyfish would occasionally kill a luckless swimmer off the tropical north coast.
(2) Craig is quite winning as the intense, luckless and perhaps in some ways wicked Hughes: Paltrow is Paltrow.
(3) That was the striker’s 11th league goal of a season that he began with a long luckless streak.
(4) !” A female singer who overdid the sexiness was automatically a “foxtress”, and a rock star who overplayed the social conscience bit – usually the luckless Weller again – was addressing “ver kidz”.
(5) Jovetic's luckless run with injuries has badly disrupted his first season in English football but here was the evidence that the £22.9m signing from Fiorentina can still play a considerable part.
(6) Carrick is elegant enough to fit into Spain’s midfield but his luckless run of injuries continues.
(7) There's a chihuahua scowling in a cape, a golden retriever Fenton-ing after a luckless terrier and a lurcher that looks like a retired academic.
(8) But that is not the good fortune of the luckless children of that benighted city.
(9) If it can sometimes seem that Polanski's sadism towards his characters is being pursued for its own amusement and in isolation from their mistreatment at the hands of their fellow man – at one point, Trelkovsky steps in dog shit, just as other characters walk into doors – then this is because he likes to show the world conspiring against the luckless.
(10) The revolution certainly has not taken off as people might have anticipated but City should feel better for this victory even if it was tempered by another terrible blow for the luckless Ilkay Gündogan.
(11) National statutes, UN protocols and who knows how many luckless souls bolted up in cells round the world affirm that the old prohibitionist order has not collapsed.
(12) This is what it looks like when processes are changed in a panic: not just a bunch of arrogant scofflaws, astonished to find society finally standing up to them; but also a luckless brigade, dealt yet more terrible luck, serving more time on remand than they would ever normally be sentenced to on conviction.
(13) Billed as Disney's revisionist version of Sleeping Beauty, this live action spectacular features Angelina Jolie as the "mistress of all evil" and Elle Fanning as luckless Princess Aurora.
(14) His love of football came in handy for Another Sunday And Sweet FA (1972), an unruly clash between rival local teams as experienced by the luckless referee.
(15) Hugo's story of injustice has been filmed several times in the US and the story of Javert pursuing the luckless Valjean has been recreated in several forms in American settings, most famously in the long-running TV series The Fugitive and the big-screen version starring Harrison Ford.
(16) But behind the bold words lay the wreckage of her recently, incorrigibly luckless life: the apparent suicide of her lover Michael Hutchence in a Sydney hotel room, the revelation that former Opportunity Knocks presenter Hughie Green was her father, a vicious and protracted custody battle with her ex-husband Bob Geldof.
(17) Ali takes care of his two canaries (replacements for the luckless cockatiel), or walks in the forest with his uncle.
(18) Meanwhile, another company was involved in sourcing workers for CPUK, scouting around the country for unemployed people so luckless that standing underneath London Bridge at 3am was considered better for their morale than being asleep.
(19) The forward had been industrious but largely luckless up to this point and his hat-trick was reward for months of endeavour and, potentially, a springboard to another prolific run.
(20) In Shanghai, meanwhile, the luckless citizens who chose to invest their hard-earned cash in shares are learning the hard lesson – often forgotten even by the world’s most seasoned investors – that markets can go down as well as up.