depressed

UK/dɪˈpɹɛst/US/dɪˈpɹɛst/

adjectiveB22 meanings Very common — you will meet it every day · #1,759 of 15,258leans spoken

Depressed means feeling very low in spirits for a long stretch. Feel depressed, clinically depressed, a depressed mood.

In ordinary speech it means sad, and in medicine it means something more: a lasting low mood with loss of interest, changed sleep and appetite, and it is treatable. Anybody feeling this way for weeks is worth a doctor's time. The word also means pressed down.

Definitions of depressed

1adjectivedepressedFeeling very low in spirits for a long stretch.B2
“After losing his job, he felt depressed for months and rarely left the house.”
2adjectivepressedPressed down below the surrounding level.C1
“An X-ray showed a depressed fracture where the rock had struck his skull.”

Too few real examples of this word to estimate which sense is commonest.

depressed is a state of mood.

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depressed in the wild

Ambedkar that increased the political representation of the depressed classes, now known as Scheduled Castes (SC).
Poona Pact
Hysteroid dysphoria is a name given to repeated episodes of depressed mood in response to feeling rejected.
Hysteroid dysphoria
When a key is depressed, the strings inside are struck by felt-coated wooden hammers.
Piano
While stationed at Fort Humboldt Grant became lonely and depressed and he began to drink.
Early life and career of Ulysses S. Grant
Critics have noted the coincidence of the title and the fact that all Black Sabbath members except Tony Iommi were later clinically depressed.
Am I Going Insane (Radio)

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