DEPRESSED


Meaning of DEPRESSED in English

de ‧ pressed /dɪˈprest/ BrE AmE adjective

[ Word Family: adjective : ↑ depressed , ↑ depressing , ↑ depressant , ↑ depressive ; noun : ↑ depression , ↑ depressant , ↑ depressive ; verb : ↑ depress ; adverb : ↑ depressingly ]

1 .

a) very unhappy:

She felt lonely and depressed.

depressed about

Don’t get depressed about it.

The divorce left him deeply depressed.

I was depressed at the thought of all the hard work ahead.

b) suffering from a medical condition in which you are so unhappy that you cannot live a normal life:

patients who are clinically depressed

2 . an area, industry etc that is depressed does not have enough economic or business activity:

Britain’s depressed housing market

3 . formal a depressed level or amount is lower than normal:

a depressed appetite

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COLLOCATIONS

■ verbs

▪ feel depressed

The boy said he was unhappy at school and felt depressed.

▪ get/become depressed

If you get depressed, talk to someone about it.

▪ look/sound depressed

Is Jo all right? She sounded a bit depressed.

■ adverbs

▪ severely/seriously depressed (=very depressed)

He became severely depressed after losing his job.

▪ deeply depressed (=very depressed)

I could see that she was deeply depressed.

▪ slightly/mildly depressed

He was exhausted and mildly depressed.

▪ a bit depressed British English spoken:

I felt a bit depressed because I was so short of money.

▪ clinically depressed technical (=depressed in a way that doctors recognize as an illness)

His medical records show that he was suicidal and clinically depressed.

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THESAURUS

■ very sad

▪ miserable very sad, especially because you are lonely, cold, ill, or upset – used about people and periods of time:

I felt miserable and blamed myself for what had happened.

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Her life was miserable.

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I had a miserable time at college.

▪ depressed very sad and without hope for a long time, because things are wrong in your life or because of a medical condition:

After his wife left him, he became depressed and refused to talk to anyone.

▪ heartbroken extremely sad because of something that has happened to someone or something that you care about very much:

She was heartbroken when her dog died.

▪ distressed/distraught very upset because of something bad that has happened, so that you cannot think clearly:

She was very distressed when he left her.

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The boy’s hospital bed was surrounded by distraught relatives.

▪ devastated [not before noun] extremely sad and shocked, because something very bad has happened:

The whole town was devastated by the tragedy.

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