Standard Lemma guide

depressed

adj · verb · 8 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation, US: /dɪˈpɹɛst/
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -ɛst
  • CMU ARPABET: D IH0 P R EH1 S T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

adj

Meaning 1

Unhappy; despondent.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: miserable, sorrowful, atrabiliary, atrabilious, blitheless, dispirited, blue, bummed out, chapfallen, cheerless, chopfallen, crestfallen, cut up, damp, dejected, depressed, despondent, disgruntled, disconsolate, disheartened, dismal, doleful, dolesome, down, down in the dumps, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, downsome, dull, elegiac, elegious, forlorn, gloomy, glum, grief-stricken, grieving, heavy-hearted, heartsore, heartsick, inconsolable, infelicitous, jawfallen, joyless, lachrymose, lamentful, low, low-spirited, lugubrious, lumpish, melancholic, melancholy, moody, mopey, morose, mournful, passionate, plaintive, Plutonian, Plutonic, querulous, ruthful, sad, saddened, saturnine, shattered, solemn, sombre, sorrow-ridden, sorrowsome, spiritless, sullen, threnetic, threnetical, triste, tristful, uncheerful, uncheery, unconsolable, unhappy, unlively, wistful, woe, woebegone, woeful, wretched

Antonyms: cheerful

2

adj

Meaning 2

Suffering from clinical depression.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

adj

Meaning 3

Suffering damaging effects of economic recession.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

adj

Meaning 4

Reduced to a lower degree or form.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: mathematics, sciences

Examples

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

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

verb

Meaning 5

simple past and past participle of depress

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: form-of, participle, past

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

adjective satellite

Meaning 6

filled with melancholy and despondency

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • 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

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: gloomy, grim, blue, dispirited, down(p), downcast, downhearted, down in the mouth, low, low-spirited

Antonyms: none provided

7

adjective satellite

Meaning 7

lower than previously

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • the market is depressed
  • prices are down

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: down(p)

Antonyms: none provided

8

adjective satellite

Meaning 8

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

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Across languages

Translations

84 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: مُحْبَط (muḥbaṭ) — severely despondent and unhappy
  • Arabic: مُكْتَئِب (muktaʔib) — severely despondent and unhappy
  • Arabic: مُكْتَئِب (muktaʔib) — severely despondent and unhappy
  • Bulgarian: унил (unil) — severely despondent and unhappy
  • Bulgarian: потиснат (potisnat) — severely despondent and unhappy
  • Catalan: deprimit — severely despondent and unhappy
  • Chinese Mandarin: 沮喪 /沮丧 (jǔsàng) — severely despondent and unhappy
  • Chinese Mandarin: 鬱悶 /郁闷 (yùmèn) — severely despondent and unhappy
  • Czech: deprimovaný — severely despondent and unhappy
  • Finnish: masentunut — severely despondent and unhappy
  • French: déprimé — severely despondent and unhappy
  • French: dépressif — severely despondent and unhappy
  • French: mélancolique — severely despondent and unhappy
  • Galician: deprimido — severely despondent and unhappy
  • German: deprimiert — severely despondent and unhappy
  • German: gedrückt — severely despondent and unhappy
  • German: niedergedrückt — severely despondent and unhappy
  • German: bedrückt — severely despondent and unhappy
  • Greek: άθυμος (áthymos) — severely despondent and unhappy
  • Ancient Greek: δύσθυμος (dústhumos) — severely despondent and unhappy
  • Hebrew: מדוכא (meduká) — severely despondent and unhappy
  • Hebrew: מדוכדך (medukhdákh) — severely despondent and unhappy
  • Hungarian: lehangolt — severely despondent and unhappy
  • Hungarian: csüggedt — severely despondent and unhappy
  • Irish: in ísle brí — severely despondent and unhappy
  • Italian: depresso — severely despondent and unhappy
  • Italian: abbattuto — severely despondent and unhappy
  • Italian: abbacchiato — severely despondent and unhappy
  • Italian: mogio — severely despondent and unhappy
  • Māori: tāmate — severely despondent and unhappy
  • Norwegian Bokmål: deprimert — severely despondent and unhappy
  • Norwegian Bokmål: deppa — severely despondent and unhappy
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: deprimert — severely despondent and unhappy
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: deppa — severely despondent and unhappy
  • Old Church Slavonic: оумилѥнъ (umiljenŭ) — severely despondent and unhappy
  • Persian: افسرده (afsorde) — severely despondent and unhappy
  • Plautdietsch: bedrekj — severely despondent and unhappy
  • Polish: nieszczęśliwy — severely despondent and unhappy
  • Portuguese: deprimido — severely despondent and unhappy
  • Romagnol: abatù — severely despondent and unhappy
  • Romanian: deprimat — severely despondent and unhappy
  • Romanian: nefericit — severely despondent and unhappy
  • Romanian: depresionat — severely despondent and unhappy
  • Russian: пода́вленный (podávlennyj) — severely despondent and unhappy
  • Russian: уны́лый (unýlyj) — severely despondent and unhappy
  • Sanskrit: खिन्न (khinna) — severely despondent and unhappy
  • Scottish Gaelic: gruamach — severely despondent and unhappy
  • Spanish: deprimido — severely despondent and unhappy
  • Spanish: abatido — severely despondent and unhappy
  • Swedish: deprimerad — severely despondent and unhappy
  • Swedish: deppa — severely despondent and unhappy
  • Turkish: çökkün — severely despondent and unhappy
  • Turkish: keyifsiz — severely despondent and unhappy
  • Turkish: üzgün — severely despondent and unhappy
  • Turkish: morali bozuk — severely despondent and unhappy
  • Vietnamese: trầm cảm — severely despondent and unhappy
  • Winnebago: nąącgestak — severely despondent and unhappy
  • Yiddish: פֿאַרקלעמט (farklemt) — severely despondent and unhappy
  • Bulgarian: депресиран (depresiran) — suffering from clinical depression
  • Catalan: deprimit — suffering from clinical depression
  • Chinese Mandarin: 抑鬱 /抑郁 (yìyù) — suffering from clinical depression
  • Dutch: depressief — suffering from clinical depression
  • Finnish: masentunut — suffering from clinical depression
  • French: dépressif — suffering from clinical depression
  • Galician: deprimido — suffering from clinical depression
  • German: depressiv — suffering from clinical depression
  • Hungarian: depressziós — suffering from clinical depression
  • Icelandic: þunglyndur — suffering from clinical depression
  • Norwegian: deprimert — suffering from clinical depression
  • Polish: dotknięty depresji — suffering from clinical depression
  • Portuguese: deprimido — suffering from clinical depression
  • Romanian: deprimat — suffering from clinical depression
  • Romanian: depresionat — suffering from clinical depression
  • Russian: в состоя́нии депре́ссии (v sostojánii depréssii) — suffering from clinical depression
  • Swedish: deprimerad — suffering from clinical depression
  • Turkish: debrese — suffering from clinical depression
  • Turkish: bunalımlı — suffering from clinical depression
  • Turkish: depresyonlu — suffering from clinical depression
  • Catalan: deprimit — suffering damaging effects of economic recession
  • Chinese Mandarin: 不景氣 /不景气 (bù jǐngqì) — suffering damaging effects of economic recession
  • Finnish: taantumassa — suffering damaging effects of economic recession
  • Russian: в состоя́нии депре́ссии (v sostojánii depréssii) — suffering damaging effects of economic recession
  • Russian: в состоя́нии засто́я (v sostojánii zastója) — suffering damaging effects of economic recession
  • Swedish: deprimerad — suffering damaging effects of economic recession
Real reading context

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