depressed
When stocks are depressed they are worth less than they should be. When people are depressed they are sad and lack energy. Depressed means down in spirit or value.
While you'll often hear people say they are depressed, mostly they mean they are sad. If you are clinically depressed, you have a sadness and hopelessness that has physical effects and no logical reason behind it and you can't seem to shake it either. If someone calls their town or region depressed, they mean that the economy in that area is not good — in that place jobs are hard to find, and have been for quite a while. Sad, right?
Definitions of depressed
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filled with melancholy and despondency“depressed by the loss of his job”
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synonyms:
blue, dispirited, down, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, gloomy, grim, low, low-spirited
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dejected
affected or marked by low spirits
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dejected
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lower than previously
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flattened downward as if pressed from above or flattened along the dorsal and ventral surfaces
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Synonyms:
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thin
of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section
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thin
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