Thesaurus
depressed
Synonyms and Antonyms of depressed
- the depressed sections of the highway under the overpasses constantly get flooded during heavy rainstorms
- I was depressed and didn't feel much like going to the party, but felt better afterwards
bad, blue, brokenhearted, cast down, crestfallen, dejected, despondent, disconsolate, doleful, down, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, droopy, forlorn, gloomy, glum, hangdog, heartbroken, heartsick, heartsore, heavyhearted, inconsolable, joyless, low, low-spirited, melancholic, melancholy, miserable, mournful, sad, saddened, sorrowful, sorry, unhappy, woebegone, woeful, wretched
aggrieved, distressed, troubled, uneasy, unquiet, upset, worried
disappointed, discouraged, disheartened, dispirited
dolorous, lachrymose, lugubrious, plaintive, tearful
agonized, anguished, grieving, wailing, weeping
black, bleak, cheerless, comfortless, dark, darkening, depressing, desolate, dismal, drear, dreary, elegiac (also elegiacal), funereal, gray (also grey), morbid, morose, murky, saturnine, somber (or sombre), sullen
ecstatic, elated, enraptured, entranced, euphoric, exhilarated, exuberant, exultant, overjoyed, rapturous, rhapsodic (also rhapsodical)
blithe, blithesome, jocose, jocular, jocund, jolly, jovial, lightsome, merry, mirthful
hopeful, optimistic, rosy, sanguine
animated, bouncing, energetic, frisky, jaunty, lively, peppy, perky, spirited, sprightful, sprightly, springy, vital, vivacious, zippy
content, gratified, pleased, satisfied
beaming, grinning, laughing, smiling
boon, carefree, careless, cavalier, devil-may-care, easygoing, happy-go-lucky, insouciant, lighthearted, unconcerned
- a depressed class of people whose living conditions have not improved significantly despite targeted social programs
blessed (also blest), fortunate, lucky
affluent, flush, loaded, moneyed (also monied), opulent, rich, wealthy, well-heeled, well-off, well-to-do
coddled, indulged, pampered, spoiled
Synonyms and Antonyms of depressed
- the thought of once again failing the bar exam depressed me
- construction workers depressed the roadbed in order to make way for an overpass
flattened, floored, leveled (or levelled)
knocked down, knocked over, struck down, toppled
plopped, plunked down (or plonked down)
- the glut of wheat on the market has depressed that commodity for most of the past year
attenuated, broke, cheapened, depreciated, devaluated, devalued, downgraded, lowered, marked down, reduced, sank (or sunk), wrote down, wrote off
- depressed the lever to start the machine
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