[syn: gloomy, grim, blue, depressed, dispirited, down(p), downcast, downhearted, down in the mouth, low, low-spirited]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.
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2. To bring down or humble; to abase, as pride.
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3. To cast a gloom upon; to sadden; as, his spirits were
depressed.
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4. To lessen the activity of; to make dull; embarrass, as
trade, commerce, etc.
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5. To lessen in price; to cause to decline in value; to
cheapen; to depreciate.
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6. (Math.) To reduce (an equation) in a lower degree.
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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.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Depressed \De*pressed"\, a.
1. Pressed or forced down; lowed; sunk; dejected; dispirited;
sad; humbled.
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2. (Bot.)
(a) Concave on the upper side; -- said of a leaf whose
disk is lower than the border.
(b) Lying flat; -- said of a stem or leaf which lies close
to the ground.
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3. (Zool.) Having the vertical diameter shorter than the
horizontal or transverse; -- said of the bodies of
animals, or of parts of the bodies.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
depressed
adj 1: lower than previously; "the market is depressed"; "prices
are down" [syn: depressed, down(p)]
2: flattened downward as if pressed from above or flattened
along the dorsal and ventral surfaces
3: 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" [syn:
gloomy, grim, blue, depressed, dispirited,
down(p), downcast, downhearted, down in the mouth,
low, low-spirited]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
133 Moby Thesaurus words for "depressed":
alveolar, alveolate, anguished, anxious, bad, badly off, blue,
bored, bowed-down, cast down, cheerless, couchant, crouched,
dashed, debased, dejected, dented, deprived, despairing,
despondent, desponding, dimpled, dire, disadvantaged, disconsolate,
discouraged, disgusted, disheartened, dispirited, donsie, doomful,
down, downcast, downhearted, downthrown, drooping, droopy,
engraved, evil-starred, fallen, fatal, faveolate, feeling low,
flat, fortuneless, funest, grim, hapless, heartless, honeycombed,
hypochondriac, hypochondriacal, ill off, ill-starred,
in adverse circumstances, in low spirits, in the depths,
in the doldrums, in the dumps, inauspicious, indented, joyless,
knee-high, knocked flat, laid low, languishing, low, low-built,
low-hung, low-level, low-leveled, low-lying, low-set, low-spirited,
low-statured, lowered, luckless, lugubrious, melancholy, nauseated,
nauseous, neap, notched, ominous, out of luck, pessimistic, pining,
pitted, planet-struck, pleasureless, pocked, pockmarked,
prey to malaise, prone, prostrate, recumbent, reduced, repelled,
revolted, runty, sad, short, short of luck, sickened, spiritless,
squat, squatty, star-crossed, stooped, stumpy, subdued, submerged,
suffering angst, suicidal, sunk, sunken, supine, unblessed,
underprivileged, uneasy, unelevated, unfortunate, unfulfilled,
ungratified, unhappy, unlucky, unprosperous, unprovidential,
unquiet, unsatisfied, weary of life, woebegone, world-weary