depressed
lowered in force, amount, etc.
undergoing economic hardship, especially poverty and unemployment.
being or measured below the standard or norm.
Botany, Zoology. flattened down; greater in width than in height.
Psychiatry. having or experiencing depression.
Origin of depressed
1Other words for depressed
1 | saddened, morose, despondent, miserable; blue; morbid |
Opposites for depressed
Other words from depressed
- non·de·pressed, adjective
- qua·si-de·pressed, adjective
- sub·de·pressed, adjective
- un·de·pressed, adjective
Words Nearby depressed
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How to use depressed in a sentence
The economic recovery will be stunted and thwarted if that doesn’t happen…the economy will be depressed.
New York City transit needs a $12 billion bailout—or the entire U.S. economic recovery may suffer | dzanemorris | September 3, 2020 | FortuneI became depressed, sometimes to the point that I would stay in bed for a couple of days in a row.
While peaks in e-commerce revenue have been a welcome sight, it’s a far cry from making up for depressed ad revenues.
Beyond the boom and bust cycle: How The Sun grew and stabilized its e-commerce revenue haul | Lucinda Southern | August 27, 2020 | DigidayThat is, HACA was historically overly lenient with its residents and that it was collecting a depressed amount of rent from residents.
She Was Sued Over Rent She Didn’t Owe. It Took Seven Court Dates to Prove She Was Right. | by Danielle Ohl, Capital Gazette, and Talia Buford and Beena Raghavendran, ProPublica | August 25, 2020 | ProPublicaBy the way, another possibility, Stephen, is that the people who are happier are just different from the people who are depressed, and they’re both growing in number and the middle’s getting carved out.
And, he confided, the situation left him “a little depressed” as well.
Kerry Bentivolio: The Congressman Who Believes in Santa Claus | Ben Jacobs | December 24, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe young people in Girls are miserable, peevish, depressed, hate their bodies, themselves, their life, and each other.
Up to a Point: They Made Me Write About Lena Dunham | P. J. O’Rourke | December 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBorn in Kuwait, Jason languished in college in the States (“It was a cultural thing”) and says he became clinically depressed.
The Secret World of Pickup Artist Julien Blanc | Brandy Zadrozny | December 1, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST“I was deeply depressed and pulled myself out of it by embracing Day of the Dead,” she says.
But his recent Twitter feed, filled with dozens of angry and depressed rants, showed Fryberg was distressed.
The Homecoming Prince Who Tweeted His Killing Spree | Brandy Zadrozny | October 24, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTMlle. Mayer had been for some time in a depressed condition, and her friends had been anxious about her.
Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D. | Clara Erskine ClementThis would in any event have depressed prices of cotton, even under ordinary conditions.
Readings in Money and Banking | Chester Arthur PhillipsMrs. Armine was fatigued by the journey, and by the long day at Denderah, which had secretly depressed her.
Bella Donna | Robert HichensIt was a rather depressed stock-hand, name of Flood, who blew cigarette smoke out over the brow of Writing-Stone that evening.
Raw Gold | Bertrand W. SinclairIn one instant the mottled-faced gentleman depressed his hand again, and every glass was set down empty.
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, v. 2(of 2) | Charles Dickens
British Dictionary definitions for depressed
/ (dɪˈprɛst) /
low in spirits; downcast; despondent
lower than the surrounding surface
pressed down or flattened
Also: distressed characterized by relative economic hardship, such as unemployment: a depressed area
lowered in force, intensity, or amount
(of plant parts) flattened as though pressed from above
zoology flattened from top to bottom: the depressed bill of the spoonbill
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