Word Meanings - DEPRESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To reduce in a lower degree. To depress the pole , to cause the sidereal pole to appear lower or nearer the horizon, as by sailing toward the equator. Syn. -- To sink; lower; abase; cast down; deject; humble; degrade; dispirit; discourage. (more
Additional info about word: DEPRESS
To reduce in a lower degree. To depress the pole , to cause the sidereal pole to appear lower or nearer the horizon, as by sailing toward the equator. Syn. -- To sink; lower; abase; cast down; deject; humble; degrade; dispirit; discourage. (more info) 1. To press down; to cause to sink; to let fall; to lower; as, to depress the muzzle of a gun; to depress the eyes. "With lips depressed." Tennyson. 2. To bring down or humble; to abase, as pride. 3. To cast a gloom upon; to sadden; as, his spirits were depressed. 4. To lessen the activity of; to make dull; embarrass, as trade, commerce, etc. 5. To lessen in price; to cause to decline in value; to cheapen; to depreciate.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DEPRESS)
- Abase
- Degrade
- disgrace
- bring low
- reduce
- humble
- demean
- stoop
- humiliate
- depress
- lower
- sink
- dishonor
- Debase
- deprave
- deteriorate
- corrupt
- alloy
- impair
- Dwarf
- Lower
- stunt
- Lower Depress
- decrease
- bate
- abate
- drop
- debase
- diminish
- Sink
- Fall
- descend
- subside
- penetrate
- soak
- droop
- decline
- weary
- flag
- decay
- immerse
- submerge
- degrade
- drown
- attenuate
- suppress
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DEPRESS)
- Mend
- repair
- purify
- cleanse
- correct
- ameliorate
- better
- Rise
- grow
- increase
- flourish
- luxuriate
- vegetate
- expand
- enlarge
- Increase
- amplify
- augment
- extend
- Hoist
- raise
- heighten
- exalt
- aggrandize
- elevate
Related words: (words related to DEPRESS)
- BRANDLING; BRANDLIN
See WORM - BROKERY
The business of a broker. And with extorting, cozening, forfeiting, And tricks belonging unto brokery. Marlowe. - BREVIARY
summary, abridgment, neut. noun fr. breviarius abridged, fr. brevis 1. An abridgment; a compend; an epitome; a brief account or summary. A book entitled the abridgment or breviary of those roots that are to be cut up or gathered. Holland. 2. A - BRITTLELY
In a brittle manner. Sherwood. - BRAND IRON
1. A branding iron. 2. A trivet to set a pot on. Huloet. 3. The horizontal bar of an andiron. - BRAZIL NUT
An oily, three-sided nut, the seed of the Bertholletia excelsa; the cream nut. Note: From eighteen to twenty-four of the seed or "nuts" grow in a hard and nearly globular shell. - BRAST
To burst. And both his yën braste out of his face. Chaucer. Dreadfull furies which their chains have brast. Spenser. - BREAKMAN
See BRAKEMAN - DEMEANURE
Behavior. Spenser. - BROID
To braid. Chaucer. - BROIDERER
One who embroiders. - BRUISEWORT
A plant supposed to heal bruises, as the true daisy, the soapwort, and the comfrey. - ATTENUATE; ATTENUATED
1. Made thin or slender. 2. Made thin or less viscid; rarefied. Bacon. - BRAWNER
A boor killed for the table. - BRACHIOGANOID
One of the Brachioganoidei. - DROOPER
One who, or that which, droops. - BRITANNIC
Of or pertaining to Great Britain; British; as, her Britannic Majesty. - BRANCHIOSTOMA
The lancelet. See Amphioxus. - BROKEN WIND
The heaves. - BRACTLESS
Destitute of bracts. - BREATHE
Etym: 1. To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live. "I am in health, I breathe." Shak. Breathes there a man with soul so dead Sir W. Scott. 2. To take breath; to rest from action. Well! breathe awhile, and then to it again! Shak. 3. - COUNTERBRACE
To brace in opposite directions; as, to counterbrace the yards, i. e., to brace the head yards one way and the after yards another. - UNDERBRED
Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith. - WILLOWER
A willow. See Willow, n., 2. - WINDFLOWER
The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone. - OPPROBRIOUS
1. Expressive of opprobrium; attaching disgrace; reproachful; scurrilous; as, opprobrious language. They . . . vindicate themselves in terms no less opprobrious than those by which they are attacked. Addison. 2. Infamous; despised; rendered - CREBRICOSTATE
Marked with closely set ribs or ridges. - TECTIBRANCHIA
See TECTIBRANCHIATA - MAKE AND BREAK
Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker. - BRASIER; BRAZIER
An artificer who works in brass. Franklin. - CAMBRIC
1. A fine, thin, and white fabric made of flax or linen. He hath ribbons of all the colors i' the rainbow; . . . inkles, caddises, cambrics, lawns. Shak. 2. A fabric made, in imitation of linen cambric, of fine, hardspun cotton, often with figures - CHICKEN-BREASTED
Having a narrow, projecting chest, caused by forward curvature of the vertebral column. - OVERBROW
To hang over like a brow; to impend over. Longfellow. Did with a huge projection overbrow Large space beneath. Wordsworth. - APPRAISER
One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates. - TOOTHBRUSH
A brush for cleaning the teeth.