| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | de·pressed |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  d -pr st |
| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Low in spirits; dejected. 2. Suffering from psychological depression. 3. Sunk below the surrounding region: the depressed center of a crater. 4. Lower in amount, degree, or position: Oil reserves were at depressed levels because of increasing industrial demands. 5a. Sluggish in growth or activity: a depressed sector of the economy. b. Suffering from social and economic hardship: a depressed region. 6. Botany Flattened downward, as if pressed from above. 7. Zoology Flattened along the dorsal and ventral surfaces. | | SYNONYMS: | depressed, blue, dejected, dispirited, downcast, downhearted These adjectives mean affected or marked by low spirits: depressed by the loss of his job; lonely and blue in a strange city; is dejected but trying to look cheerful; a dispirited and resigned expression on her face; looked downcast after his defeat; a downhearted patient who welcomed visitors.
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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