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feeling unhappiness I was depressed and didn't feel much like going to the party, but felt better afterwards

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verb

past tense of depress
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Recent Examples of depressed
Adjective
Government sector growth remained depressed, down by 59,000 jobs since January, after months of leading job growth. William Dunkelberg, Forbes.com, 12 June 2025 After a robust dose of Ketamine, depressed mice swam longer. Pat Beall, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 June 2025 What would Georgia wear in her most depressed state? Hedy Phillips, People.com, 16 June 2025 That can put them on edge and heighten their separation anxiety, Langan said, and if their owners are depressed or grief-stricken about loss and uncertainty, the animals absorb those emotions too. Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for depressed
Recent Examples of Synonyms for depressed
Adjective
  • High atop a particularly craggy one, the rainfall gets a toehold beneath soil clinging to a very steep and slightly concave slope of rock.
    Jennifer Berry Hawes, ProPublica, 19 May 2025
  • Jan, 2022 Was the mask sandwiched between concave and convex metal electrodes?
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 14 Sep. 2020
Adjective
  • The root of the fallout was the Who (and specifically Daltrey) being unhappy with Starkey’s performance when the band played a pair of Teenage Cancer Trust charity shows at London’s Royal Albert Hall in March.
    Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 22 June 2025
  • On Friday, Devers alluded to being unhappy with how the Red Sox treated him.
    Gabrielle Starr, Boston Herald, 20 June 2025
Adjective
  • In the last election, some of the most deprived areas of the country — based on factors like income, housing and health — voted for the Conservative Party for the first time.
    Josh Holder, New York Times, 24 June 2024
  • But what makes Seller’s story sing is his vivid recollection of a deprived childhood with demanding parents, his first job as a booking agent, and his coming out during the early days of the AIDS epidemic.
    Air Mail, Air Mail, 26 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Although Raymond James lowered its 12-month price target on Coherent to $91 from $110, that still implies more than 33% upside from Friday’s close.
    Sean Conlon, CNBC, 24 Mar. 2025
  • The fatalities were the first in Kyiv in more than two months, and on Sunday, the Ukrainian flag atop the 335-foot-tall Motherland Monument was lowered to half-staff as a symbol of mourning.
    arkansasonline.com, arkansasonline.com, 24 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • The final amount could be affected by two factors — the number of claims and how much of the settlement fund is reduced to cover legal fees and costs.
    CBS News, CBS News, 3 Jan. 2025
  • Liver damage can be reduced if the person stops drinking.
    George Petras, USA TODAY, 3 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Vance pressed Zelenskyy, who has thanked America over and over.
    Maureen Dowd, The Mercury News, 4 Mar. 2025
  • At her pool, visitors pressed against a window, ogling the manatees swimming inside without always understanding the calamities that brought the animals there.
    Bethany Barnes, Sun Sentinel, 9 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Equally hollow are the claims that his proposal is low risk.
    Naperville Sun, Chicago Tribune, 27 June 2025
  • Most of the other obvious yuks are flashy and hollow: Of course M3GAN will dance.
    Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2025
Adjective
  • Too much alcohol and your dreamy dessert turns into a sad, semi-frozen slush.
    Emily Price, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
  • Her eyes are big and sad, and her index finger touches the tip of the nightstick hanging from the policeman’s belt.
    Daniel Alarcón, New Yorker, 30 June 2025

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“Depressed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/depressed. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.

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