Word Meanings - DEPRESSED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having the vertical diameter shorter than the horizontal or transverse; -- said of the bodies of animals, or of parts of the bodies. (more info) 1. Pressed or forced down; lowed; sunk; dejected; dispirited; sad; humbled. Concave on the upper side;

Additional info about word: DEPRESSED

Having the vertical diameter shorter than the horizontal or transverse; -- said of the bodies of animals, or of parts of the bodies. (more info) 1. Pressed or forced down; lowed; sunk; dejected; dispirited; sad; humbled. Concave on the upper side; -- said of a leaf whose disk is lower than the border. Lying flat; -- said of a stem or leaf which lies close to the ground.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DEPRESSED)

• Dejected
• Dispirited
• gloomy
• melancholy
• desponding
• depressed
• downcast
• low-spirited
• Low
• Abated
• sunk
• stunted
• declining
• deep
• subsided
• inaudible
• cheap
• gentle
• dejected
• degraded
• mean
• abject
• base
• unworthy
• lowly
• feeble
• moderate
• frugal
• reprieved
• subdued
• reduced
• poor
• Sad
• Heavy
• grave
• dull
• sorrowful
• woe-begone
• calamitous
• dismal
• doleful
• mournful
• cheerless
• serious
• grievous
• saturnine

Related words: (words related to DEPRESSED)

• DEJECTION
  1. A casting down; depression. Hallywell. 2. The act of humbling or abasing one's self. Adoration implies submission and dejection. Bp. Pearson. 3. Lowness of spirits occasioned by grief or misfortune; mental depression; melancholy. What besides,
• SERIOUS
  1. Grave in manner or disposition; earnest; thoughtful; solemn; not light, gay, or volatile. He is always serious, yet there is about his manner a graceful ease. Macaulay. 2. Really intending what is said; being in earnest; not jesting
• GRAVES
  The sediment of melted tallow. Same as Greaves.
• DEJECTORY
  1. Having power, or tending, to cast down. 2. Promoting evacuations by stool. Ferrand.
• GRAVEDIGGER
  See T (more info) 1. A digger of graves.
• DECLINATION
  The angular distance of any object from the celestial equator, either northward or southward. (more info) 1. The act or state of bending downward; inclination; as, declination of the head. 2. The act or state of falling off or declining
• ABATVOIX
  The sounding-board over a pulpit or rostrum.
• DISPIRITED
  Depressed in spirits; disheartened; daunted. -- Dis*pir"it*ed*ly, adv. -- Dis*pir"it*ed, n.
• MOURNFUL
  Full of sorrow; expressing, or intended to express, sorrow; mourning; grieving; sad; also, causing sorrow; saddening; grievous; as, a mournful person; mournful looks, tones, loss. -- Mourn"ful*ly, adv. -- Mourn"ful*ness, n. Syn. -- Sorrowful;
• CHEAPLY
  At a small price; at a low value; in a common or inferior manner.
• ABJECT
  1. Cast down; low-lying. From the safe shore their floating carcasses And broken chariot wheels; so thick bestrown Abject and lost lay these, covering the flood. Milton. 2. Sunk to a law condition; down in spirit or hope; degraded; servile;
• REDUCEMENT
  Reduction. Milton.
• FRUGALNESS
  , n. Quality of being frugal; frugality.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• GLOOMY
  1. Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded; as, the cavern was gloomy. "Though hid in gloomiest shade." Milton. 2. Affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy; dejected; as, a gloomy temper
• GRAVEL
  A deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a symptom. Gravel powder, a coarse gunpowder; pebble powder. (more info) strand; of Celtic origin; cf. Armor.
• ABATER
  One who, or that which, abates.
• FRUGALLY
  Thriftily; prudently.
• REDUCE
  To bring to the metallic state by separating from impurities; hence, in general, to remove oxygen from; to deoxidize; to combine with, or to subject to the action of, hydrogen; as, ferric iron is reduced to ferrous iron; or metals are reduced from
• DECLINATOR
  1. An instrument for taking the declination or angle which a plane makes with the horizontal plane. 2. A dissentient. Bp. Hacket.
• WILDGRAVE
  A waldgrave, or head forest keeper. See Waldgrave. The wildgrave winds his bugle horn. Sir W. Scott.
• RABATINE
  A collar or cape. Sir W. Scott.