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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
depressed
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
economically depressed (=with not enough business activity, jobs etc)
▪ Economically depressed areas in the northeast will receive extra EU funding.
weak/ailing/depressed
▪ The economy is weak and consumer confidence is low.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
▪ I was more depressed than upset.
▪ It made him even more depressed.
▪ They're not terribly interested in the depressed South so the depressed South gets more depressed.
▪ Those questioned were aged from 14 to 83 and were generally more depressed than average.
▪ At Balmoral her mood grew even more depressed.
▪ I got more and more depressed.
▪ Then I felt even more depressed.
▪ As he told Barbara afterwards, he had never felt more depressed.
really
▪ I was in a bad way at that time, I felt really depressed, so I went round causing criminal damage.
▪ But booze made me really depressed.
▪ I was really depressed at the thought of coming in to the office this morning.
▪ It has got me really depressed.
▪ He felt really depressed now, depressed about the old man's worries, depressed about his own.
▪ That night I was really depressed.
severely
▪ Boltwood rubbed a little on the forehead of a four year-old who immune system was severely depressed.
▪ Some one who is more severely depressed may feel physically ill as well as gloomy.
▪ Betty, aged 43, was severely depressed when I first met her.
so
▪ One afternoon we became so depressed that we decided to drown our sorrows in drink.
▪ I was so angry with him, and so depressed about my future, that I could not eat the breakfast.
▪ I felt so depressed at the end despite a good run.
▪ Oh man, I must be so depressed.
▪ When I see other children going to school I feel so depressed and disturbed, my girl is indoors all day.
▪ So half the time I felt like killing him, and I got agoraphobia, because I was so depressed.
▪ I've been feeling so depressed and tearful and choked up.
▪ Callaghan told Joel Barnett that he had never felt so depressed, and the news spread.
very
▪ Short must be feeling very depressed after this lapse, since he played a model game.
▪ At other times, he suffered serious infections and pneumonia and became very depressed.
▪ I came back t vice but I was very depressed just looking at the outside of the house.
▪ You sound very depressed to me, and it's probably this that's making you feel unable to cope.
▪ She looked into her future, and grew very depressed.
▪ Liddie Heath became very depressed after the birth of her first child, a baby boy.
▪ The women used to get very depressed and there were always debts.
▪ Women who are very depressed may need more intensive individual support before joining others with bulimia in a group.
■ NOUN
area
▪ The scheme was intended to provide financial help to unemployed workers in depressed areas who were prepared to move to other areas.
▪ The government, through its regional policy, also provides assistance to companies creating jobs in depressed areas.
▪ Between 1981 and 1983 the government created twenty-four so-called enterprise zones in economically depressed areas.
▪ Other depressed areas also lost much, if not all, their natural increase in population.
▪ By our standards the parts of the Western Isles that we were able to visit are not a particularly depressed area.
▪ Having made a collection myself in a depressed area, I got £2.30 in total.
▪ This was not just a matter of revival of basic industries in previously depressed areas.
▪ Thus member countries may gradually become depressed areas of the Community.
market
▪ Recently, car manufacturers have been offering big discounts in a bid to sell more in a depressed market.
▪ The company blamed intense price-cutting in depressed markets which further eroded petrochemical margins.
▪ The jeans maker's bonds are trading above par, even in a badly depressed market.
state
▪ But with the present depressed state of the market, any oil may stay underground.
▪ But with the current depressed state of bloodstock trading there was little prospect of any records being broken.
▪ Despite the current depressed state of the advertising industry, Ashton receives a regular stream of calls from headhunters.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A lot of people eat too much when they're depressed.
▪ A lot of people get depressed in the winter, when the weather's bad and there's very little sunlight.
▪ Greta often gets depressed about her weight.
▪ Most people enrolled in the food stamp program live in depressed urban areas.
▪ My sister's been really depressed since she lost her job.
▪ Symptoms of the illness include a depressed appetite.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ During the first day without her pills, Clare grew increasingly depressed and agitated.
▪ Freud believed that the depressed person had developed from childhood with high dependency needs.
▪ He used to long for his holidays and grow deeply depressed when they drew to an end.
▪ He was quite depressed and didn't know which way to turn.
▪ My already depressed spirits sank a few notches lower.
▪ The market may be depressed, but aviation auctions are not a thing of the past!
▪ This paper describes Individual and Group Cognitive Therapy with depressed clients and cites two recent outcome studies.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Depressed

Depressed \De*pressed"\, a.

  1. Pressed or forced down; lowed; sunk; dejected; dispirited; sad; humbled.

  2. (Bot.)

    1. Concave on the upper side; -- said of a leaf whose disk is lower than the border.

    2. Lying flat; -- said of a stem or leaf which lies close to the ground.

  3. (Zo["o]l.) Having the vertical diameter shorter than the horizontal or transverse; -- said of the bodies of animals, or of parts of the bodies.

Depressed

Depress \De*press"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Depressed; p. pr. & vb. n. Depressing.] [L. depressus, p. p. of deprimere; de- + premere to press. See Press.]

  1. To press down; to cause to sink; to let fall; to lower; as, to depress the muzzle of a gun; to depress the eyes. ``With lips depressed.''
    --Tennyson.

  2. To bring down or humble; to abase, as pride.

  3. To cast a gloom upon; to sadden; as, his spirits were depressed.

  4. To lessen the activity of; to make dull; embarrass, as trade, commerce, etc.

  5. To lessen in price; to cause to decline in value; to cheapen; to depreciate.

  6. (Math.) To reduce (an equation) in a lower degree.

    To depress the pole (Naut.), to cause the sidereal pole to appear lower or nearer the horizon, as by sailing toward the equator.

    Syn: To sink; lower; abase; cast down; deject; humble; degrade; dispirit; discourage.

Wiktionary
depressed

  1. 1 unhappy, and blaming oneself rather than others; despondent 2 Suffering from clinical depression. 3 Suffering damaging effects of economic recession. v

  2. (en-past of: depress)

WordNet
depressed

  1. adj. lower than previously; "the market is depressed"; "prices are down" [syn: down(p)]

  2. flattened downward as if pressed from above or flattened along the dorsal and ventral surfaces

  3. low in spirits; "lonely and blue in a strange city"; "depressed by the loss of his job"; "a dispirited and resigned expression on her face"; "downcast after his defeat"; "feeling discouraged and downhearted" [syn: blue, dispirited, down(p), downcast, downhearted, down in the mouth, low, low-spirited]

  4. having the central portion lower than the margin; "a depressed pustule" [syn: indented]

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Usage examples of "depressed".

I had been depressed and utterly baffled when I arrived in Alsatia an hour earlier.

Gina had come away from her meeting with Baumer depressed by a feeling of failure.

You should be positioned so that when you have the brakes or clutch fully depressed, you still have your knees bent.

When Blaine and Butts rode into the yard at the home ranch they found a depressed and worried company gathered on the veranda of the big house.

The upper three-quarters of the anterior articular surface of the calcis is not in contact with the cuboid, the latter being depressed obliquely forward and downward, the lower portion of the posterior facet on the cuboid articulating with a new surface on the under portion of the bone.

The dictates of true policy dissuaded her from contributing to her further conquest in that kingdom, which would have proved the source of contention among the allies, depressed the house of Bourbon below the standard of importance which the balance of Europe required it should maintain, and aggrandize the states-general at the expense of Great Britain.

Likewise, this decoction, in common with an extract of the herb, has been given curatively for intermittent fever and ague, as well as for some depressed, and disordered states of the nervous system.

As the disease progresses, the loss of strength is more and more marked, the patient can no longer follow his usual employment, his spirits are depressed, and he gradually sinks, or tubercular matter is deposited in the lungs, and consumption is developed.

Between them and the mountain, the ground is considerably depressed, and if the lava should ever take a course towards the lake, it would be cast on the downs and the neighboring parts of Shark Gulf.

I took the poor fellow back to Fellside last March, bruised and broken by your cruel treatment, heartsore and depressed.

All the grown-ups had been very depressed and very excited all at once for weeks now, because of the election and what the Yankees were doing and saying, and a lot of very important, very angry gentlemen had visited The Forks, and kept talking about war, which frightened Queen.

Nor did they have the overlong arms, the flat noses depressed at the base common to the Gabun, Congo, or Mozambique types.

He was depressed as he reflected on the great difference between this project and the castles of Okazaki and Hamamatsu in his own province.

The pickets continued, no one made any money, and the community of Hopewell and its citizens grew steadily more depressed.

She was something of an intrigante, as I myself was, and whatever her misfortunes, they never depressed her, and she was constantly looking around for exciting adventures.