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depressed

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de·pressed  (d-prst)
adj.
1. Low in spirits; dejected.
2. Suffering from psychological depression.
3. Sunk below the surrounding region: the depressed center of a crater.
4. Lower in amount, degree, or position: Oil reserves were at depressed levels because of increasing industrial demands.
5.
a. Sluggish in growth or activity: a depressed sector of the economy.
b. Suffering from social and economic hardship: a depressed region.
6. Botany Flattened downward, as if pressed from above.
7. Zoology Flattened along the dorsal and ventral surfaces.
Synonyms: depressed, blue, dejected, dispirited, downcast, downhearted
These adjectives mean affected or marked by low spirits: depressed by the loss of his job; lonely and blue in a strange city; is dejected but trying to look cheerful; a dispirited and resigned expression on her face; looked downcast after his defeat; a downhearted patient who welcomed visitors.

depressed
Adjective
1. low in spirits; downcast
2. suffering from economic hardship, such as unemployment: the current depressed conditions
3. pressed down or flattened
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.depressed - lower than previously; "the market is depressed"; "prices are down"
low - less than normal in degree or intensity or amount; "low prices"; "the reservoir is low"
2.depressed - flattened downward as if pressed from above or flattened along the dorsal and ventral surfaces
biological science, biology - the science that studies living organisms
thin - of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section; "thin wire"; "a thin chiffon blouse"; "a thin book"; "a thin layer of paint"
3.depressed - 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"
dejected - affected or marked by low spirits; "is dejected but trying to look cheerful"

depressed
Translations
depressed [dɪˈprɛst] adjdeprimido;
(COMM) [market, economy] → deprimido; [area] → deprimido (económicamente);
to get depressed → deprimirse
depressed [dɪˈprɛst] depress adj [person] → déprimé(e)abattu(e); [area] → en déclin, touché(e) par le sous-emploi;
(Comm) [market, trade] → maussade;
to get depressed → se démoraliser, se laisser abattre
depressed [dɪˈprɛst] depress adjdeprimiert, niedergeschlagen;
(price) → gesunken;
(industry) → geschwächt;
(area) → Notstands-;
to get depressed depress → deprimiert werden
depressed [dɪˈprɛst] adj [person] → depresso/a, abbattuto/a; [area] → depresso/a;
(COMM) [market, trade] → stagnante, in ribasso;
to get depressed → deprimersi


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The Eagle was much depressed in spirits by the change.
Yet somehow I feel depressed when I read it, for I seem now to have grown twice as old as I was when I penned its concluding lines.
These were the reflections which now troubled Crayford, and which presented him, after his rescue, in the strangely inappropriate character of a depressed and anxious man.
 
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