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depressed Definition

de·pressed (dē prest, di-)

adjective

  1. pressed down
  2. lowered in position, intensity, amount, or degree
  3. flattened or hollowed, as if pressed down
  4. gloomy; dejected; sad
  5. suffering from psychological depression
  6. characterized by widespread unemployment, poverty, lack of opportunity, etc.; impoverished a depressed area
  7. Bot. flattened, as if from downward pressure
  8. Zool. having the horizontal diameter longer than the vertical; broad

depressed Synonyms

depressed

modif.

discouraged, pessimistic, cast down; see sad 1. See syn. study at sad.

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.