depressed
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
depressed
- simple past and past participle of depress
Adjective[edit]
depressed (comparative more depressed, superlative most depressed)
- Unhappy; despondent.
- 1917, Anton Chekhov, translated by Constance Garnett, The Darling and Other Stories[1], Project Gutenberg, published 9 September 2004, →ISBN, page 71:
- The mother, Ekaterina Pavlovna, who at one time had been handsome, but now, asthmatic, depressed, vague, and over-feeble for her years, tried to entertain me with conversation about painting. Having heard from her daughter that I might come to Shelkovka, she had hurriedly recalled two or three of my landscapes which she had seen in exhibitions in Moscow, and now asked what I meant to express by them.
- Suffering from clinical depression.
- Suffering damaging effects of economic recession.
- (mathematics) 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.
Synonyms[edit]
- despondent
- emo (informal, sometimes pejorative)
- gloomy
- melancholy
- miserable
- sad
- unhappy
Antonyms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
severely despondent and unhappy
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suffering from clinical depression
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suffering damaging effects of economic recession
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