depressed

English

Etymology

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• (US, UK) IPA^(key): /dɪˈpɹɛst/

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• Rhymes: -ɛst

Verb

depressed

1. simple past and past participle of depress

Adjective

depressed (comparative more depressed, superlative most depressed)

1. Unhappy; despondent.
   • 1917, Anton Chekhov, translated by Constance Garnett, The Darling and Other Stories‎^[1], 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.
3. (mathematics) 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.

Synonyms

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

Antonyms

• cheerful

Derived terms

• clinically depressed
• depressedly
• depressedness
• nondepressed

Translations

severely despondent and unhappy

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: مُحْبَط (muḥbaṭ), مُكْتَئِب (muktaʔib)

  Hijazi Arabic: مُكْتَئِب (muktaʔib)

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: унил (bg) (unil), потиснат (bg) (potisnat)
• Catalan: deprimit (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 沮喪／沮丧 (zh) (jǔsàng)

• Czech: deprimovaný
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: masentunut (fi)
• French: déprimé (fr), dépressif (fr), mélancolique (fr)
• Galician: deprimido
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: deprimiert (de), gedrückt (de), niedergedrückt (de), bedrückt (de)
• Greek: άθυμος (el) (áthymos)

  Ancient: δύσθυμος (dústhumos)

• Hebrew: מדוכא m (meduká), מדוכדך m (medukhdákh)
• Hungarian: lehangolt (hu), csüggedt (hu)
• Irish: in ísle brí
• Italian: depresso (it), abbattuto (it), abbacchiato (it), mogio (it)
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Maori: tāmate
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian: deprimert
• Persian: افسرده (fa) (afsorde)
• Plautdietsch: bedrekj
• Polish: nieszczęśliwy (pl)
• Portuguese: deprimido (pt)
• Romagnol: abatù
• Romanian: deprimat (ro) m, nefericit (ro) m, depresionat m or n
• Russian: пода́вленный (ru) (podávlennyj), уны́лый (ru) (unýlyj)
• Sanskrit: खिन्न (sa) (khinna)
• Scottish Gaelic: gruamach
• Spanish: deprimido (es), abatido (es)
• Swedish: deprimerad (sv)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: çökkün (tr), keyifsiz (tr), üzgün (tr), morali bozuk
• Vietnamese: trầm cảm (vi)
• Winnebago: nąącgestak
• Yiddish: פֿאַרקלעמט (farklemt)

suffering from clinical depression

• Bulgarian: депресиран (bg) (depresiran)
• Catalan: deprimit (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 抑鬱／抑郁 (zh) (yìyù)

• Dutch: depressief (nl)
• Finnish: masentunut (fi)
• Galician: deprimido
• German: depressiv (de)
• Hungarian: depressziós (hu)
• Icelandic: þunglyndur (is)
• Norwegian: deprimert
• Portuguese: deprimido (pt)
• Romanian: deprimat (ro) m or n, depresionat m or n
• Russian: в состоя́нии депре́ссии (v sostojánii depréssii)
• Swedish: deprimerad (sv)
• Turkish: debrese (medicine), bunalımlı (tr), depresyonlu

suffering damaging effects of economic recession

• Catalan: deprimit (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 不景氣／不景气 (zh) (bù jǐngqì)

• Finnish: taantumassa (fi)
• Russian: в состоя́нии депре́ссии (v sostojánii depréssii), в состоя́нии засто́я (v sostojánii zastója)
• Swedish: deprimerad (sv)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

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• Hebrew: ^{(please verify)} מדוכא (meduka) (1,2)
• Scottish Gaelic: ^{(please verify)} ciar, ^{(please verify)} airtnealach, ^{(please verify)} gruamach