depressed

English

Etymology

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• (US, UK) IPA^(key): /dɪˈpɹɛst/

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• Rhymes: -ɛst

Verb

depressed

1. simple past and past participle of depress

Adjective

depressed (comparative more depressed, superlative most depressed)

1. 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.

   1. Suffering from clinical depression.
2. Suffering damaging effects of economic recession.
   • 2015, Heidi Nast, “Pit Bulls, Slavery, and Whiteness in the Mid- to Late-Nineteenth-Century U.S.”, in Rosemary-Claire Collard, Kathryn Gillespie, editors, Critical Animal Geographies, page 141:

     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grew up in the Ridley public housing project during the Reagan years when funding for such projects was being largely withdrawn.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'.

3. (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

• despondent
• emo (informal, sometimes pejorative)
• gloomy
• melancholy
• miserable
• sad
• unhappy

Antonyms

• cheerful

Derived terms

• clinically depressed
• depressedly
• depressedness
• nondepressed

Translations

severely despondent and unhappy

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: مُحْبَط (muḥbaṭ), مُكْتَئِب (muktaʔib)

  Hijazi Arabic: مُكْتَئِب (muktaʔib)

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: унил (bg) (unil), потиснат (bg) (potisnat)
• Catalan: deprimit (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 沮喪／沮丧 (zh) (jǔsàng)

• Czech: deprimovaný
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: masentunut (fi)
• French: déprimé (fr), dépressif (fr), mélancolique (fr)
• Galician: deprimido
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: deprimiert (de), gedrückt (de), niedergedrückt (de), bedrückt (de)
• Greek: άθυμος (el) (áthymos)

  Ancient: δύσθυμος (dústhumos)

• Hebrew: מדוכא m (meduká), מדוכדך m (medukhdákh)
• Hungarian: lehangolt (hu), csüggedt (hu)
• Irish: in ísle brí
• Italian: depresso (it), abbattuto (it), abbacchiato (it), mogio (it)
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Maori: tāmate
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian: deprimert
• Persian: افسرده (fa) (afsorde)
• Plautdietsch: bedrekj
• Polish: nieszczęśliwy (pl)
• Portuguese: deprimido (pt)
• Romagnol: abatù
• Romanian: deprimat (ro) m, nefericit (ro) m, depresionat m or n
• Russian: пода́вленный (ru) (podávlennyj), уны́лый (ru) (unýlyj)
• Sanskrit: खिन्न (sa) (khinna)
• Scottish Gaelic: gruamach
• Spanish: deprimido (es), abatido (es)
• Swedish: deprimerad (sv)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: çökkün (tr), keyifsiz (tr), üzgün (tr), morali bozuk
• Vietnamese: trầm cảm (vi)
• Winnebago: nąącgestak
• Yiddish: פֿאַרקלעמט (farklemt)

suffering from clinical depression

• Bulgarian: депресиран (bg) (depresiran)
• Catalan: deprimit (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 抑鬱／抑郁 (zh) (yìyù)

• Dutch: depressief (nl)
• Finnish: masentunut (fi)
• Galician: deprimido
• German: depressiv (de)
• Hungarian: depressziós (hu)
• Icelandic: þunglyndur (is)
• Norwegian: deprimert
• Portuguese: deprimido (pt)
• Romanian: deprimat (ro) m or n, depresionat m or n
• Russian: в состоя́нии депре́ссии (v sostojánii depréssii)
• Swedish: deprimerad (sv)
• Turkish: debrese (medicine), bunalımlı (tr), depresyonlu

suffering damaging effects of economic recession

• Catalan: deprimit (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 不景氣／不景气 (zh) (bù jǐngqì)

• Finnish: taantumassa (fi)
• Russian: в состоя́нии депре́ссии (v sostojánii depréssii), в состоя́нии засто́я (v sostojánii zastója)
• Swedish: deprimerad (sv)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

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• Hebrew: ^{(please verify)} מדוכא (meduka) (1,2)
• Scottish Gaelic: ^{(please verify)} ciar, ^{(please verify)} airtnealach, ^{(please verify)} gruamach