depressed

Etymology

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

verb

1. simple past and past participle of depress

adj

1. Unhappy; despondent.
   The mother, Ekaterina Pavlovna, who at one time had been handsome, but now, asthmatic, depressed, vague, and over-feeble for her years, tried to entertain me with conversation about painting. Having heard from her daughter that I might come to Shelkovka, she had hurriedly recalled two or three of my landscapes which she had seen in exhibitions in Moscow, and now asked what I meant to express by them. 1917, Anton Chekhov, translated by Constance Garnett, The Darling and Other Stories, Project Gutenberg, published 9 September 2004, page 71
   1. Suffering from clinical depression.
2. Suffering damaging effects of economic recession.
3. (mathematics) Reduced to a lower degree or form.
   The cubic function x³ + cx + d = 0, where one of the terms has a coefficient of zero, is a depressed cubic.