depressed

Verb

• lower someone's spirits; make downhearted
  • "These news depressed her"
• lower (prices or markets)
  • "The glut of oil depressed gas prices"
• cause to drop or sink
  • "The lack of rain had depressed the water level in the reservoir"
• press down
• lessen the activity or force of
  • "The rising inflation depressed the economy"
• simple past and past participle of depress

Adjective Satellite

• lower than previously
  • "the market is depressed"
• flattened downward as if pressed from above or flattened along the dorsal and ventral surfaces
• filled with melancholy and despondency
  • "depressed by the loss of his job"

Adj

• Unhappy; despondent.
• Unhappy; despondent.
• Suffering from clinical depression.
• Suffering damaging effects of economic recession.
• Reduced to a lower degree or form.

Examples

• The cubic function x³ + cx + d = 0, where one of the terms has a coefficient of zero, is a depressed cubic.

Synonyms

blue, cast down, deject, demoralise, demoralize, depress, dismay, dispirit, dispirited, down, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, get down, gloomy, grim, low, low-spirited, lower, press down, atrabiliary, atrabilious, blitheless, bummed out, chapfallen, cheerless, chopfallen, crestfallen, cut up, damp, dejected, depressed, despondent, disconsolate, disgruntled, disheartened, dismal, doleful, dolesome, down in the dumps, downsome, dull, elegiac, elegious, forlorn, glum, grief-stricken, grieving, heartsick, heartsore, heavy-hearted, inconsolable, infelicitous, jawfallen, joyless, lachrymose, lamentful, lugubrious, lumpish, melancholic, melancholy, miserable, moody, mopey, morose, mournful, passionate, plaintive, querulous, sad, saddened, saturnine, shattered, solemn, sombre, sorrow-ridden, sorrowful, sorrowsome, spiritless, sullen, threnetic, threnetical, triste, tristful, uncheerful, uncheery, unconsolable, unhappy, unlively, wistful, woe, woebegone, woeful, wretched

Antonyms

elate, cheerful

Anagrams of depressed