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DEPRESSED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Filled with melancholy and despondency
Example:
feeling discouraged and downhearted
Synonyms:
blue; depressed; dispirited; down; down in the mouth; downcast; downhearted; gloomy; grim; low; low-spirited
Classified under:
Similar:
dejected (affected or marked by low spirits)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Lower than previously
Example:
prices are down
Synonyms:
depressed; down
Classified under:
Similar:
low (less than normal in degree or intensity or amount)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Flattened downward as if pressed from above or flattened along the dorsal and ventral surfaces
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
thin (of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section)
Domain category:
biological science; biology (the science that studies living organisms)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb depress
Context examples:
A question about whether an individual feels or felt depressed.
(Feel Depressed, NCI Thesaurus)
Functional Assessment of Multiple Sclerosis (FAMS) Emotional Well-Being: I am depressed about my condition.
(FAMS - Depressed About My Condition, NCI Thesaurus)
Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI) Does the patient seem sad or depressed?
(NPI - Seem Sad or Depressed, NCI Thesaurus)
We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and shaken than I had ever seen him.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
And it is so cheerful a place, that it could not fail of being of use to Mr. Woodhouse's spirits, which, I understand, are sometimes much depressed.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
The air was cold, and the rain again began to descend; we entered the hut, the fiend with an air of exultation, I with a heavy heart and depressed spirits.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
And is no allowance to be made for inadvertence, or for spirits depressed by recent disappointment?
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
I wished I had kept my candle burning: the night was drearily dark; my spirits were depressed.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Patient Health Questionnaire - 9 (PHQ-9) Feeling down, depressed, or hopeless.
(PHQ-9 - Feeling Down, Depressed, or Hopeless, NCI Thesaurus)
To-night I am too weary and too depressed to make my plans.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
