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adjective

sad and gloomy; dejected; downcast.

pressed down, or situated lower than the general surface.

lowered in force, amount, etc.

undergoing economic hardship, especially poverty and unemployment.

being or measured below the standard or norm.

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Botany, Zoology. flattened down; greater in width than in height.

Psychiatry. suffering from depression.

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Origin:
1375–1425; late Middle English; see depress, -ed²

Related forms

non·de·pressed, adjective

qua·si-de·pressed, adjective

sub·de·pressed, adjective

un·de·pressed, adjective

Synonyms
1. saddened, morose, despondent, miserable; blue; morbid.

Antonyms
1. happy.

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Whether men drink and use drugs because they're depressed or are depressed because of the substance abuse is uncertain.

Software may know when you are depressed by examining your online behavior.

Some depressed inner-city areas have been turned round-but sometimes only after being razed.

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Whether men drink and use drugs because they're depressed or are depressed because of the substance abuse is uncertain.

Software may know when you are depressed by examining your online behavior.

Some depressed inner-city areas have been turned round-but sometimes only after being razed.

But the next morning she woke up in her empty house and felt so depressed that she unpacked everything.

If a child is depressed as a child he more prone to be the same as an adult.

Truman returned to his villa that evening deeply depressed.

It further depressed the economy and devastated farming livelihoods.

Teenagers whose parents have a history of depression are at particularly high risk of becoming depressed themselves.

The depressed man barely laughs, but the friend is hilarious and keeps it up.

The activity is explained partly by a depressed gold price.

Typically, the upper bill can be raised or depressed relative to the braincase.

Depressed people may need help to achieve this ability.

Philip gave the drug to eighteen depressed smokers, along with their other medications.

Reach out to those around you who are alone and depressed.

Coupled with depressed lecturer's wages and a car that wouldn't survive the commute, the writing was on the wall.

Rents have been depressed by the large stock of vacant units.

On my window ledge, a depressed pigeon looked back at me blankly.

Others, weighed down by the stress of being fired or losing a loved one, become depressed.

On average, you might find that the depressed group has lower frontal activity than the normal group.

Combining drugs with talk therapy works best in treating depressed adolescents, the first large study of its kind has found.

Successful job hunting requires behavior that is particularly difficult when one is depressed.

Domestic demand has been depressed by lay-offs and declining remittances.

The personality of a depressed person is different from their pre-depressed state.

Recent studies show that one out of ten teenagers is depressed.

He was ecstatic at the prospect of fatherhood, and he did not acknowledge feeling depressed or suicidal.

The local context may be booming or it may be economically depressed.

It is worth remembering, though, that profits are still depressed.

Children who receive unequal treatment are more likely to grow into depressed adults.

Basically, this grocery store has these plates that when depressed produce electrical energy.

For centuries, doctors have treated depressed patients, using medication and psychological strategies.

Having said this, the governor's letter leaves me deeply depressed.

The economy will grow quite briskly, though from a depressed level.

Anger leading to violence is common in depressed men.

But in short order, scientists worldwide would be utterly depressed.

It is easy to say he was depressed or his work was compromised by depression.

But it won't help to start beating yourself up over being depressed in the first place.

For people who rely on social housing, moving from a depressed area to a prosperous one is hard.

Controlling parents tend to have children who are academically above average but depressed.

Three patients had profoundly depressed numbers of thymus-dependent lymphocyte cells.

If you are suicidal or extremely depressed and cannot function you may need to be treated in a psychiatric hospital.

Sales taxes dropped along with consumer spending and remain depressed.

He became so depressed he was put in my brother's ward.

Depressed men are more likely to commit suicide than depressed women.

If employers fear significantly depressed economic activity, they will sit on their hands and produce that outcome.

Within an hour it was determined that she was depressed.

And appreciation reduced employment and depressed wages.

People that are sick or depressed don't pick up and move to a new country.

In addition, more of us than ever are clinically depressed.

He wished to win the hand of the depressed princess by making her laugh.

Both depressed and burned-out women found it hard to focus and remember simple details, compared with control women.

Much is known about postpartum depression in women, but now researchers are calling attention to the plight of depressed fathers.

Second, our depressed economy has put a premium on jobs and economic security.

To be sure, the economic downturn has depressed corporate spending.

Then there are people who can't sleep because of depression, and people who are depressed because they can't sleep.

Schools get awfully depressed what with leaky pipes, graffiti, crumbling concrete.

Business inventories are deeply depressed and even a modest swing to restocking will bring a rapid rebound in factory production.

Depressed people exercise less, possibly increasing their risk for heart attack, a new study shows.

Also, if you are as depressed as you state in the letter, please seek help.

Yet it is also possible that advertising will begin to recover from severely depressed levels.

The plan may sound especially ambitious in light of the depressed ethanol production of the past two years.

Beck describes one characteristic type of depressed patient as a man whose wife has left him.

He was then perfunctory-marched through two days of interviews by depressed handlers, with nary a call later.

Of course all of these alleged causes are in fact symptoms of depressed aggregate demand.

She became so depressed she stopped eating and dropped so much weight so quickly she could no longer stand.

But such bargains are eminently practical in a depressed industry.

Within days she had met inmates so deranged or depressed that they had swallowed rat poison, forks or drain cleaner.

Don't let yourself become socially disconnected and depressed.

Try your best not to get depressed over this thought and instead, realize that there is a way you can help.

There's time enough to get depressed once you actually have reason to be.

The seat belt tightened and the brakes depressed automatically.

Yet another, who half an hour ago was happy and friendly, is now sick and depressed.

But the theory that is currently all the rage holds that yields have been depressed by a global savings glut.

And because of its lack of status, it's a lot more depressed than other areas.

When prices were depressed and profits scarce foreign firms had to be lured with generous terms that now rankle.

Confession: this book depressed the hell out of me for several days.

Housing prices don't go into a free fall, depressed by an avalanche of foreclosures.

Two studies of perception: the retinas of depressed people are far worse at responding to.

What's more, they actually became depressed and forgetful.

My strategy of thinking work thoughts made me more depressed.

It finds that both technological change and the globalisation of labour markets have depressed labour's share in all four groups.

It makes us too irritable, tense and depressed to perform our best on the job.

The commercial streets surrounding the campus are pretty depressed.

Since the prices of homes still have a long way to fall, housing investment will remain depressed.

People feel alone and then get depressed or drop out.

They become uncontrollably and sometimes permanently depressed in the face of this kind of treatment.

He was also depressed and suffered from anxiety, including stomach problems, from a young age.

The government hopes that dollarisation will bring a swift recovery of confidence in the deeply depressed economy.

Halfway through, he'd get depressed because he knew it would be over soon.

Then neighbors told her the guy who lived there before was depressed and killed himself there.

Bobby grew depressed and emaciated and began biting his own arm, leaving permanent scars.

The market in my area has collapsed, leaving me depressed and anxious about the future.

I've certainly was never depressed after the birth of my children.

Mexican business people are also depressed by growing fears for their own security.

In the past poverty and poor schooling have depressed aborigines' political activity.

The appalling deficits of central and state governments have depressed public-sector investment.

Coke has a culprit ready to hand: the depressed state of the world economy.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

verb (used with object)

to make sad or gloomy; lower in spirits; deject; dispirit.

to lower in force, vigor, activity, etc.; weaken; make dull.

to lower in amount or value.

to put into a lower position: to depress the muzzle of a gun.

to press down.

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Music. to lower in pitch.

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Origin:
1275–1325; Middle English depressen < Anglo-French, Old French depresser < Latin dēpressus pressed down (past participle of dēprimere, equivalent to de- de- + -primere, combining form of premere to press); see pressure

Related forms

de·press·i·ble, adjective

de·press·i·bil·i·ty, noun

o·ver·de·press, verb (used with object)

un·de·press·i·ble, adjective

Synonyms
1. dishearten, discourage, sadden. See oppress. 3. devalue, cheapen.

Antonyms
4. raise, elevate.

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World English Dictionary

depressed (dɪˈprɛst)

—*adj*
1.	low in spirits; downcast; despondent
2.	lower than the surrounding surface
3.	pressed down or flattened
4.	Also: distressed characterized by relative economic hardship, such as unemployment: a depressed area
5.	lowered in force, intensity, or amount
6.	(of plant parts) flattened as though pressed from above
7.	zoology flattened from top to bottom: the depressed bill of the spoonbill

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Word Origin & History

depress

early 14c., from O.Fr. depresser, from L.L. depressare, freq. of L. deprimere "press down," from de- "down" + premere "to press" (see press (v.1)).

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Medical Dictionary

depress de·press (dĭ-prěs')
v.

To lower in spirits; deject.
To cause to drop or sink; lower.
To press down.
To lessen the activity or force of something.

depressed de·pressed (dĭ-prěst')
adj.

Lower in amount, degree, or position.
Sunk below the surrounding area.
Flattened along the dorsal and ventral surfaces.
Low in spirits; dejected.
Suffering from psychological depression.

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