Verb

• S: (v) depress, deject, cast down, get down, dismay, dispirit, demoralize, demoralise (lower someone's spirits; make downhearted) "These news depressed her"; "The bad state of her child's health demoralizes her"
• S: (v) depress (lower (prices or markets)) "The glut of oil depressed gas prices"
• S: (v) lower, depress (cause to drop or sink) "The lack of rain had depressed the water level in the reservoir"
• S: (v) press down, depress (press down) "Depress the space key"
• S: (v) depress (lessen the activity or force of) "The rising inflation depressed the economy"
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• sentence frame

Adjective

• S: (adj) depressed, down (lower than previously) "the market is depressed"; "prices are down"
• S: (adj) depressed (flattened downward as if pressed from above or flattened along the dorsal and ventral surfaces)
• S: (adj) gloomy, grim, blue, depressed, dispirited, down, downcast, downhearted, down in the mouth, low, low-spirited (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"