Depressed

Definition: Depressed

Depressed

Adjective

1. Lower than previously; "the market is depressed"; "prices are down".

2. (biology) flattened downward as if pressed from above or flattened along the dorsal and ventral surfaces.

3. Low in spirits; "lonely and blue in a strange city"; "depressed by the loss of his job"; "a dispirited and resigned expression on her face"; "downcast after his defeat"; "feeling discouraged and downhearted".

4. Having the central portion lower than the margin; "a depressed pustule".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "depressed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Synonyms: Depressed

Concavity

Adjective: depressed; Verb: alveolate, calathiform, cup-shaped, dishing; favaginous, faveolate, favose; scyphiform, scyphose; concave, hollow, stove in; retiring; retreating; cavernous; porous; (with holes); infundibul, infundibular, infundibuliform; funnel shaped, bell shaped; campaniform, capsular; vaulted, arched.

Dejection

Noun: dejection; dejectedness; Adjective: depression, prosternation; lowness of spirits, depression of spirits; weight on the spirits, oppression on the spirits, damp on the spirits; low spirits, bad spirits, drooping spirits, depressed spirits; heart sinking; heaviness of heart, failure of heart.

Depression

Adjective: depressed; Verb: at a low ebb; prostrate; (horizontal); detrusive.

Insanity

Corybantic, dithyrambic; rabid, giddy, vertiginous, wild; haggard, mazed; flighty; distracted, distraught; depressed; agitated, hyped up; bewildered; (uncertain).

Crosswords: Depressed

Now I'm depressed. Now I feel like killing myself, but luckly I'm too depressed to bother (Pump Up the Volume; writing credit: Allan Moyle)

I'm so depressed. I need to buy shoes (Grosse Pointe; writing credit: Amy Engelberg; Wendy Engelberg)

You can't sing show tunes and be depressed! (Dead Man on Campus; writing credit: Anthony Abrams; Adam Larson Broder)

If you start out depressed everything's kind of a pleasant surprise (Say Anything...; writing credit: Cameron Crowe)

I know how you feel about all this Christmas business, getting depressed and all that (A Charlie Brown Christmas; writing credit: Charles M. Schulz)

WE! no we don't get depressed ("We Are Family"; performing artist: Sister Sledge)

That I missed her depressed her young sister named Esther, (Clementine; performing artist: Tom Lehrer)

The patient has been depressed since she began seeing me in 1993. (references; author: unknown)

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Books

• Duane's Depressed (reference)

• Helping Your Depressed Teenager: A Guide for Parents and Caregivers (reference)

• Night Comes to the Cumberlands: A Biography of a Depressed Area (reference)

• Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America: A Memoir (reference)

• Stop Negotiating With Your Teen: Strategies for Parenting Your Angry, Manipulative, Moody, or Depressed Adolescent (reference)

  (more book examples)

Consumer Goods

• DeWalt DW4514K 4-1/2" x 1/4" Metal Depressed Center Wheel General Purpose Grinding Wheels (5-Pack) (reference)

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Domesticated animals afflicted with dumb rabies may become increasingly depressed, and try to hide in isolated places, while wild animals seem to lose their fear of human beings, often appearing unusually friendly. Credit: CDC.

Animals with "dumb" rabies appear depressed, lethargic, and uncoordinated. Gradually they become completely paralyzed. When their throat and jaw muscles are paralyzed, the animals will drool and have difficulty swallowing. Credit: CDC.

Is hoisted on board USS Curtiss (AV-4) in the Korean War zone, 8 November 1950. At that time this plane, and others from Fleet Air Wing 6, were engaged in anti-mine patrols off the Korean coast. Note twin .50 caliber machine gun turret fully trained to starboard, with guns depressed. Credit: NAVY.

Sailors on the bow of USS Nicholas (DD-449) watch the Japanese destroyer Hatsuzakura steaming in company off Tokyo Bay, 27 August 1945. The Japanese ship had brought out several naval officers and harbor pilots for a conference on USS Missouri concerning the entry of the Third fleet into Sagami Wan and Tokyo Bay. Note radars, depressed gun barrels, Japanese naval ensign and other details of this Tachibana class destroyer. Credit: NAVY.

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She never had been so depressed.

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Health

Feeling angry or depressed is common and perfectly all right. (references)

When addicted individuals stop using cocaine, they often become depressed. (references)

They may become depressed, have headaches, or begin to have problems in school. (references)

Business

Consumer demand will remain depressed, and any economic growth depends largely on the export sector. (references)

However, the agricultural machinery and equipment sector did not record any growth due to the general depressed state of the economy. (references)

The health sector has been depressed as a result of the economic and financial crisis Venezuela has experienced over the past two years. (references)

Civil Liberties

Bosnia and Herzegovina

The return of apartments was scheduled to begin in 2002. The continued depressed state of the economy throughout the country and the consequent lack of employment opportunities for returnees remained a serious obstacle to a significant number of returns. (references)

Economic History

Sri Lanka

The stock market remained depressed, and the privatization process slowed. (references)

Russia

The purchasing power of some depressed regions is even worse than the federal government's. (references)

Minorities

Panama

Their geographic clustering in the economically depressed province of Colon and poorer neighborhoods of Panama City heightens their isolation from mainstream society. (references)

Political Economy

Niger

The economy remained severely depressed. (references)

Fiji

Investment is depressed due to continuing concerns over the resolution of land lease issues and political upheaval. (references)

Trade

Netherlands

EU Structural Funds are available to assist economically depressed regions that require industrial restructuring and agricultural re-conversion. (references)

Malaysia

However, given the current credit crunch and depressed stock market, major projects are likely to be funded through alternative means in the future, such as foreign direct investment, various debt and/or equity instruments, asset sales and securitization. (references)

Women

Georgia

Younger women reported that the economic balance had shifted in their favor because many traditionally male jobs had disappeared due to the depressed economy. (references)

Worker Rights

Latvia

A large number of victims are drawn from the economically depressed areas of eastern Latvia. (references)

Moldova

In practice the depressed economy has led enterprises to economize on safety equipment and show little concern for worker safety problems. (references)

India

Girls as young as 7 years of age are trafficked from economically depressed neighborhoods in Nepal, Bangladesh, and rural areas of India to the major prostitution centers of Mumbai, Calcutta, and New Delhi. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "depressed": be depressed ♦ become depressed ♦ depressed area ♦ depressed economy ♦ depressed fracture ♦ depressed job market ♦ depressed market ♦ depressed prices ♦ get depressed. Additional references.

Beginning with "depressed": depressed-center, depressed-looking.

Ending with "depressed": economically-depressed, non-depressed, severely-depressed, singularly-depressed, understandably-depressed.

Afrikaans

bedruk (dejected, dismal, gaunt, miserable, print, sad). (various references)

Albanian

i zymtë (black, cheerless, crepuscular, dark, dismal, dour, drab, dreary, eerie, funeral, funereal, gloomy, glum, grim, heavy, leaden, macabre, mirk, mirthless, morose, mournful, muddy, murk, sad, sepulchral, somber, sombre, spleenful, stark, sulky, sullen, surly, tenebrous, winterly, wintry), i ulur (cut, reduced, seated, sedentary, sitting), i shtypur (downtrodden, indented, printed, snub, typewritten), i dëshpëruar (depressing, desperate, despondent, disconsolate, dismal, downcast, forlorn, heavyhearted, hopeless, sad), i brengosur (chill, dejected, despondent, doleful, grievous, sad, sorry, unhappy). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كاسد (flat), ‏كئيب (bleak, blue, cheerless, damp, dark, dejected, depressing, depressive, desolate, disconsolate, dismal, dispirited, distressful, distressing, doleful, dolorous, down, downcast, down-hearted, drear, dreary, droopy, dyspeptic, funeral, funereal, gloomy, glum, gray, grey, grief-stricken, grieved, grievous, heavy-hearted, ill, joyless, leaden, lifeless, low-spirited, melancholic, melancholy, moody, mournful, out of spirits, rueful, sad, saddening, somber, sombre, spiritless, sullen, tearful, weary), ‏مكتئب (crestfallen, dejected, downcast, down-hearted, gloomy, grieved, sad), ‏منخفض (depression, fading, faint, low, soft), ‏محبط (frustrate, frustrated, frustrating, grim, low, spiritless), ‏مضطهد (aggrieved, oppressed, persecuted), ‏مثبط (disappointed, discouraged, dispirited, frustrated), ‏نازل (alight, engage), ‏حزين (afflicted, cheerless, dejected, doleful, dolorous, downcast, drear, dreary, lamentable, lugubrious, melancholic, miserable, mournful, pathetic, plaintive, rueful, sad, sore, sorrowful, sorry, sullen, unhappy, wailful, weary, wistful, woeful). (various references)

Bulgarian 

угнетен (heartsick, hipped), снижен (diminished), подтиснат (downtrodden, oppressed, subdued, suppressed), плосък (commonplace, even, flat, level, plane, tabular, vapid). (various references)

Chinese 

压下 (Depress, Depressing), 懊喪 (dejected, despondent), 悵 (despair, regretful, upset), 凹陷 (hollow, sunken). (various references)

Czech

deprimovaný (dejected, dispirited, down in the mouth), stlaèený (compressed), skleslý (broody, cheerless, crest-fallen, dejected, downcast, down-hearted, drooping, limp), sklíèený (blue, crest-fallen, dejected, despondent, disconsolate, downhearted, gloomy, glum, lower-spirited, low-spirited, mopish, stricken, unhappy). (various references)

Danish

deprimeret, nedtrykt, indsunken. (various references)

Dutch

down, terneergeslagen, ingezonken, gedrukt (dejected), bedrukt (dejected). (various references)

Esperanto

korpremita (dejected). (various references)

Finnish

sisäänpainunut (hollow, sunken), painuksissa (hoarse), painostunut, masentunut, apea (dejected). (various references)

French

diminué, déprimé (despondent), découragé (dejected, despondent), triste (dead, depressing), en déclin (depressing, in depression), en creux (deep-lying), en baisse (decrescent), abattu (dejected, despondent). (various references)

German

gedrückt (dejected, depressing, glum, pressed, shirked), deprimiert (dejected, dejectedly, down, downcast, frustrated, in the dumps), bedrückte (depresses). (various references)

Greek 

κοίλο (concaveness), μελαγχολικόσ (blue, broody, despondent, dismal, joyless, melancholic, melancholy, somber, sombre, wistful), άθυμοσ (crestfallen, exanimate, Moody, mopish, sad, spiritless, sulky, vaporish), θλιμμένος. (various references)

Hebrew 

מ�"וכא (blue, dejected, down, down in the mouth, gloomy, hypochondriac, liverish, morbid), מרו�" (miserable, wretched), מצר (defile, fix, gut, narrow pass, neck, orifice, sorry, straitness, straits, stricture), שפל רוח (humble, modest, poor spirited), אמול (unfortunate, wretched), רצוץ (breaking, broken, crushed, crushing, dejected, exhausted, oppressed, oppression), סחוף (eroded, oppressed), סכוף (depression), � ע� �" (humbled, suffering), � �"כ�" (broken). (various references)

Hungarian

nyomott (dim-witted, dispirited, muggy, spleenful, to feel slack), lehangolt (dejected, disconcerted, distressed, down in the mouth, downcast, down-hearted, have the hip, have the hump, low, low-spirited, out of spirits, overcast, to be in low spirits, to be in poor spirits, to be in the dumps, to be out of spirits, to desolate, to feel low), pangó (slack, sluggish, stagnant), lenyomott, lapos (earthbound, earth-bound, even, featureless, flat, lasagne, plain, prolate, stale, tabulate, trite, vapid), lanyha (dull, languid, slack, sluggish, stale, tepid). (various references)

Icelandic

mæddur, þunglyndur. (various references)

Indonesian

muram (bilious, gloomy), gundah (dejected), bergundah (anxious, restless). (various references)

Italian

depresso (blue, blue-deviled, blue-devilled, dispirited, down, downcast, downhearted, dull, glum, heartsick, low, moped). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

沈む (to feel depressed, to sink), 意気消沈 (depressed in spirits). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しずむ (to feel depressed, to sink), しず�"� �"�"ろ (depressed heart, low spirits), きがおもい (bummed out, feel depressed, heavyhearted, something lying heavy on one's mind), くさくさ (feeling depressed), くもり�"え (depressed voice), き�'くさらす (to be depressed, to be in the blues), うかないかお (looking depressed), うちしおれる (to be depressed, to droop), うちしずむ (to be depressed), いきしょうち�" (depressed in spirits, disheartened, dispirited, rejection), あきおち (depressed crop prices, poorharvest), めいる (to feel depressed), ゆうへい (confinement, depressed feeling, house arrest, imprisonment, incarceration). (various references)

Korean 

우울하게 하�". (various references)

Manx

merginagh, meayll (cape, crop-eared, flat, mull, promontory, toneless), lhag-chreeagh (despondent, dispirited, down-hearted, faint-hearted, miserable), lhag (baggy, dent, dim, easy fitting, faltering, feeble, flaccid, flagging, frail in health, ineffective), injil (common, common vulgar, low, low down, low-built, low-grade, low-level, low-lying, low-necked, low-pitched, subaltern, subdued). (various references)

Norwegian

deprimert, nedtrykt (glum), nedfor. (various references)

Papiamen

depresivo. (various references)

Pig Latin

epressedday.(various references)

Portuguese

desanimado (broken-down, cheerless, crestfallen, damp, despondent, dispirited, down, downcast, down-hearted, hagridden, heavy-laden, hopeless, languid, low, low-spirited, out of gas, out of heart, sorry), deprimido (blue, broken-down, dejected, dumpish, dumpy, hagridden, hangdog, heavy-laden, hipped, low, low-spirited, melancholy, subdued), neurastênico (choleric, neurasthenic, spleenful, splenetic), côncavo (concave, cope of heaven, hollow), acabrunhado (embarassed, sad, woebegone), abatido (broken-hearted, crestfallen, dead-alive, dejected, despondent, dismal, down, downcast, down-hearted, dumpish, haggard, hagridden, heavy-laden, joyless, languishing, low-spirited, melancholy, moped, prostrate, reduced, wan, washed-out, woebegone). (various references)

Romanian

presat (pressed), necãjit (angry, downcast, long-faced, peeved, sorry, tormented, worried), abãtut (blue, cast down, crest-fallen, dejected, disheartened, dispirited, downcast, down-hearted, downsome, dumpy, gloomy, heart-heavy, heavy-hearted, in low spirits, in poor spirits, jaw-fallen, lamenting, long-faced, low, low-spirited, melancholy, mopish, sad, sick, useless). (various references)

Russian 

угнетенный (downtrodden), унылый (bleak, chap-fallen, cheerless, crest-fallen, depressing, despondent, downcast, downhearted, down-hearted, dumpy, gloomy, godforsaken, heavy-hearted, howling, low-spirited, mopish, rueful, somber, sombre), ослабленный (dilute), понижать;подавлять подавленный, подавленный (crushed, dejected, despondent, hagridden, heavyhearted, heavy-laden, laden, low-spirited). (various references)

Scottish

muineasach. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

utučen (blue, chap-fallen, dejected, despondent, dispirited, down-hearted, hangdog, heartsick, low, low-spirited, spiritless), smrknut, potišten (chap-fallen, crestfallen, crest-fallen, dejected, despondent, dispirited, down in the mouth, down-hearted, hangdog, heavy-laden, moody, mopish, unhappy), neveseo (cheerless, sad). (various references)

Spanish

deprimido (down in the mouth, liverish), abatido (broken, contemptible, dejected, despondent, dismal, downcast, downhearted, glum, laid, miserable, mopish, weary), desanimado (cheerless, dejected, despondent, discouraged, downhearted). (various references)

Swedish

deprimerad, nedstämd (down-hearted, in the doldrums, low), nedsänkt (sunken). (various references)

Turkish

durgun (airless, bovine, calm, ditch water, ditchwater, flat, halcyon, in the doldrums, inactive, languid, lifeless, placid, quiescent, quiet, serene, settled, slack, sleepy, stagnant, standing, static, still, stock-still, tranquil, unruffled, untroubled, windless), darboğazda olan, düşürülmüş (diminished), kederli (broken hearted, chapfallen, dejected, dismal, doleful, dolorous, drear, dreary, heartsick, heartsore, heavy-hearted, low-spirited, mournful, pained, rueful, sick at heart, sorrowful, unhappy, woeful), karamsar (dejected, downbeat, heavy-hearted, low, pessimistic, somber, sombre), bunalımlı (climacteric, melancholic), bastırılmış (appeased, bottled, bottled up, pent up, restrained, subdued), çökmüş (broken, broken down, cavernous, collapsed, crooked, decadent, decrepit, down, down and out, hollow, shrunk, shrunken). (various references)

Ukrainian

смутний (gloomy, hipped), ослаблений (attenuated, dilute), зменшений (degraded, diminished, reduced), пригніченний, пригноблений. (various references)

Vietnamese 

thất vọng (chap-fallen, chop, despairing, despondingly, disappointedly, downcast, heartsick, hopeless), suy nhược (low), sức khoẻ kém sút bị ấn xuống, phiền muộn trì trệ, ngã lòng; bu�"n phiền, chán nản (chop, crest-fallen, dark, dejected, despondent, despondingly, dispiritedly, down, down-hearted, ennuied, hatchet, heartsick, heavy, long, low-spirited, mopish, spirit, spleenful, spleenish, spleeny), đình trệ suy yếu. (various references)

Welsh

digalon (dejected, disheartened, sad), pruddglwyfus (melancholy), isel (base, humble, low). (various references)

demersae. (various references)

Derivations

Words ending with "depressed": nondepressed. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Depressed" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: degressed, depressa, depresser, dipressed. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: speeders.

-2 letters: depress, dressed, peeress, pressed, reseeds, seeders, speeded, speeder, speered.

-3 letters: deeper, peered, perses, reeded, reseed, resees, seders, seeded, seeder, seeped, speeds, speers, sprees.

-4 letters: deeds, deeps, deers, dreed, drees, dress, epees, erses, pedes, peers, perse, preed, prees, prese, press, redds, reded, redes, reeds, resee, seder, seeds, seeps, seers, sered, seres, speed, speer.

+1 letter: superseded.

+2 letters: derepressed, desperadoes, suspendered.

+3 letters: decompressed, depravedness, disrespected, nondepressed.

+4 letters: depressurized.

+5 letters: depravednesses.