Difference between Lonely and Dejected

What is the difference between Lonely and Dejected?

Lonely as an adjective is of person, unhappy by feelings of loneliness. while Dejected as an adjective is sad and dispirited.

Lonely

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Of person, unhappy by feelings of loneliness. Of place, unfrequented by people; desolate. Of person, without companions; solitary.

Example sentence: I have so many different personalities in me and I still feel lonely.

Dejected

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Sad and dispirited.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: Make sad or dispirited.

Example sentence: When I did these psychological characters like the drug addicts, the ones who were rejected and dejected, I started to feel a sort of melancholia which was very unnatural for me to have at a teenage. Then I avoided those characters.

We hope you now know whether to use Lonely or Dejected in your sentence.

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