depressed

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As I got older, I spent a lot of time mildly depressed.

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lower than previously; "the market is depressed"; "prices are down"

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adjective

lower than previously; "the market is depressed"; "prices are down"

adjective

flattened downward as if pressed from above or flattened along the dorsal and ventral surfaces

adjective

filled with melancholy and despondency ; "gloomy at the thought of what he had to face"; "gloomy predictions"; "a gloomy silence"; "took a grim view of the economy"; "the darkening mood"; "lonely and blue in a strange city"; "depressed by the loss of his job"; "a dispirited and resigned expression on her face"; "downcast after his defeat"; "feeling discouraged and downhearted"

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Core meanings and parts of speech for depressed.

adjective

lower than previously; "the market is depressed"; "prices are down"

adjective

flattened downward as if pressed from above or flattened along the dorsal and ventral surfaces

adjective

Example sentences

As I got older, I spent a lot of time mildly depressed.

Having zero experience with depressed people, she couldn't handle it and dumped me.

The casual arrow is unclear and probably goes both ways, but depressed people tend to eat a lot of white carbs.

What this means is that there is something fundamentally wrong in my brain that causes me to be depressed.

I'm quite sure there are plenty of people who are depressed for reasons found in their environment, and then get stuck in the same loop.

Take some rodents, subject them to unpredictable stress to get them depressed, then give some ketamine.

That's roughly how it's diagnosed in the diagnostic manual used by most psychiatrists: check off a list of symptoms, if you have enough, you're depressed.

I live in central Japan's manufacturing hub. If you ever come visit me, and really want to return depressed, I'll arrange for us to take a tour of the company which produces most of the world's cell phone camera gaskets.

You smell a little bit, whether because you just finished a smelly job or because you're living on the streets or because you're depressed and haven't bothered to clean up in a day.

I would be very depressed on projects, make slow progress, at times get into a mode where I was much of the time pretending progress simply because I could not bring myself to do the work.

The general acceptance goes that the crazies and depressed will be triggered by something and its not your fault if something provocative you worked on triggers an incident.

"You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into" is something I often say about bigots, sexists, and so on, but it applies to depressed people as well.

This depressed me on too many levels to enumerate, but Ill toss out a few:- Someone had enough time to get these signs professionally printed and affixed to our fridges.- It was someones salaried, 40-hour-a-week job to do things like this.- Someone thought soda smuggling was a big enough problem at Microsoft to draw attention to it.

I think David Foster Wallace gives the most accurate comparison I've read, and I always want to show it to those lucky souls who have never had to deal with this type of depression:The so-called psychotically depressed person who tries to kill herself doesnt do so out of quote hopelessness or any abstract conviction that lifes assets and debits do not square.