depressed

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   filled with melancholy and despondency

   After the sudden death of my child, I was depressed for many months.

2. 2
   adj

   lower than previously

   The market is depressed right now, so I wouldn't sell any stocks.

3. 3
   adj

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

   The depressed landscape made it easy to cycle.

4. 4
   adj

   Unhappy; despondent.

   The mother, Ekaterina Pavlovna, who at one time had been handsome, but now, asthmatic, depressed, vague, and over-feeble for her years, tried to entertain me with conversation about painting. Having heard from her daughter that I might come to Shelkovka, she had hurriedly recalled two or three of my landscapes which she had seen in exhibitions in Moscow, and now asked what I meant to express by them.

5. 5
   adj

   Suffering damaging effects of economic recession.

   Born in 1980 to hard-working impoverished parents in Newport News, Virginia, Michael Vick grew up in the Ridley public housing project during the Reagan years when funding for such projects was being largely withdrawn. The eastern part of Newport News where Vick grew up became so depressed that it was called 'Bad Newz'.

6. 6
   adj

   Reduced to a lower degree or form.

   The cubic function x³ + cx + d = 0, where one of the terms has a coefficient of zero, is a depressed cubic.

7. 7
   verb

   simple past and past participle of depress

8. 8
   adj

   Suffering from clinical depression.

Etymology

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.