- Low in spirits; dejected.
- Suffering from psychological depression.
- Sunk below the surrounding region: the depressed center of a crater.
- Lower in amount, degree, or position: Oil reserves were at depressed levels because of increasing industrial demands.
- Sluggish in growth or activity: a depressed sector of the economy.
- Suffering from social and economic hardship: a depressed region.
- Botany. Flattened downward, as if pressed from above.
- Zoology. Flattened along the dorsal and ventral surfaces.
SYNONYMS depressed, blue, dejected, dispirited, downcast, downhearted. These adjectives mean affected or marked by low spirits: depressed by the loss of his job; lonely and blue in a strange city; is dejected but trying to look cheerful; a dispirited and resigned expression on her face; looked downcast after his defeat; a downhearted patient who welcomed visitors.







