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.