depressed Definition
de·pressed (dē prest′, di-)
adjective
- pressed down
- lowered in position, intensity, amount, or degree
- flattened or hollowed, as if pressed down
- gloomy; dejected; sad
- suffering from psychological depression
- characterized by widespread unemployment, poverty, lack of opportunity, etc.; impoverished a depressed area
- Bot. flattened, as if from downward pressure
- Zool. having the horizontal diameter longer than the vertical; broad
depressed Synonyms
depressed Usage Examples
Preposition: about
something: And the opposite, if we feel really depressed about something, that is not coming from the Holy Spirit.
Modifying Another Word
- clinically: At the extreme end of the spectrum, people can find themselves clinically depressed or even suicidal.
- economically: Was Chartist just a movement of economically depressed workers?
- severely: Once they realize that they face a serious threat of deportation, many become severely depressed.
- mildly: Only mildly depressed that I'm 3:20 slower than last year!
- deeply: To issue a command " to pull yourself together " to a deeply depressed, inactive patient is an obscenity.
- seriously: The alcoholic loses mental and physical energy and may become seriously depressed - alcohol is a depressive drug.
Adjective complement with noun phrase
make: Not having enough money also tends to make anyone depressed.
Modifies a noun
- mood: Mrs C, St Albans Dr. Mrs C Thank you for your inquiry about your depressed mood.
- thinking: Your own experiences will be unique to you, the exact types of depressed thinking will be your own.
- habit: More about how depressed habits start: why me?
- fracture: He suffered a left temporal compound depressed skull fracture, resulting in occasional fits.
- patient: On both tasks, acutely depressed patients differed significantly from controls.
- mother: I have worked as a youth worker with depressed young mothers who had to go on the ' at risk ' register.
Used with adjective complement
- feel: You may feel depressed, tearful, angry or anxious for no apparent reason.
- become: Frankie became depressed to the point where he thought his showbiz career was over.
- remain: Their wage levels are to remain depressed by the debt burden.
- get: Getting depressed is no fun, not with all the panic attacks.
- seem: By the next evening, Mimi, especially, seemed depressed.
- look: The doctor returned and found the man looking very depressed.
Browse dictionary entries near depressed
- ‹ depressant
- ‹ depress
- ‹ depredation
- ‹ depredate
- ‹ depreciation
- ‹ depreciated cost
- ‹ depreciate
- ‹ depreciable
- ‹ deprecatory
- ‹ deprecate
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- Depression glass ›
- depressive ›
- depressomotor ›
- depressor ›
- depressurize ›
- deprivation ›
- deprive ›

