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.