depressed

See the etymology of the main entry.

• (US, UK) IPA^(key): /dɪˈpɹɛst/

depressed

1. simple past tense and past participle of depress

depressed (comparative more depressed, superlative most depressed)

1. unhappy; despondent
   • 1917, Anton Chekhov, Constance Garnett, transl., The Darling and Other Stories‎, Project Gutenberg, published 9 September 2004, →ISBN, page 71:

     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.

   1. Suffering from clinical depression.
2. Suffering damaging effects of economic recession.

• despondent
• emo (informal, sometimes pejorative)
• gloomy
• melancholy
• miserable
• sad
• unhappy

• cheerful

• depressedly
• depressedness