"depressed" in the verb sense

1. depress, deject, cast down, get down, dismay, dispirit, demoralize, demoralise

lower someone's spirits make downhearted

"These news depressed her"

"The bad state of her child's health demoralizes her"

2. depress

lower (prices or markets

"The glut of oil depressed gas prices"

3. lower, depress

cause to drop or sink

"The lack of rain had depressed the water level in the reservoir"

4. press down, depress

press down

"Depress the space key"

5. depress

lessen the activity or force of

"The rising inflation depressed the economy"

"depressed" in the adjective sense

1. depressed, down

lower than previously

"the market is depressed"

"prices are down"

2. depressed

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

3. gloomy, grim, blue, depressed, dispirited, down, downcast, downhearted, down in the mouth, low, low-spirited

filled with melancholy and despondency

"gloomy at the thought of what he had to face"

"gloomy predictions"

"a gloomy silence"

"took a grim view of the economy"

"the darkening mood"

"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"

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