depressed

verbadjectivecommon in dialogue

United Kingdom//dɪˈpɹɛst//

Unhappy; despondent.

verb

1
Also a form of depresssimple past and past participle of depress

Etymology

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

adjective

1
Unhappy; despondent.
2
Suffering from clinical depression.
3
Suffering damaging effects of economic recession.
Born in 1980 to hard-working impoverished parents in Newport News, Virginia, Michael Vick grew up in the Ridley public housing project during the Reagan years when funding for such projects was being largely withdrawn. The eastern part of Newport News where Vick grew up became so depressed that it was called 'Bad Newz'.
4
Reduced to a lower degree or form.
The cubic function x³ + cx + d = 0, where one of the terms has a coefficient of zero, is a depressed cubic.

Forms

comparative: more depressed
superlative: most depressed

Deposition · The removal of Jesus from the cross.depot · A storage facility, in particular, a warehouse.depraved · Perverted or extremely wrong in a moral sense.

depressed · Unhappy; despondent.

depressing · Causing depression or sadness.depression · A state of mind producing serious, long-term lowering of…Depression · Synonym of Great Depression.

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