Depressed Meaning
/dɪˈpɹɛst/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
verbsimple past and past participle of depress
adjUnhappy; despondent.
Sentence Examples
Your dog may be really depressed.
The stock market is severely depressed.
You mustn't let yourself get depressed.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The real estate market remained ____ after the financial crisis.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Your dog may be really ____.
Word Origin & History
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Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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, →ISBN, page 71:
"Born in 1980 to hard-working impoverished parents in Newport News, Virginia, Michael Vick grew up in the Ridley public housing project during the Reagan years when funding for such projects was being largely withdrawn. The eastern part of Newport News where Vick grew up became so depressed that it was called 'Bad Newz'."
— 2015, Heidi Nast, “Pit Bulls, Slavery, and Whiteness in the Mid- to Late-Nineteenth-Century U.S.”, in Rosemary-Claire Collard, Kathryn Gillespie, editors, Critical Animal Geographies, page 141:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The real estate market remained ____ after the financial crisis.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Your dog may be really ____.