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What is the adjective for depressedness?

What's the adjective for depressedness? Here's the word you're looking for.

Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb depress which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

depressive

Causing depression; dispiriting.
Affected by depression, depressed; dispirited; melancholic.
Relative to, characteristic of depression.
Synonyms:

dismal, bleak, miserable, dark, dreary, depressing, desolate, gloomy, grim, sombre, cheerless, comfortless, funereal, solemn, somber, forlorn, morose, glum, sullen, wretched, cold, dire, disconsolate, drear, godforsaken, gray, morbid, black, chill, darkening, grey, lugubrious, murky, plutonian, saturnine, sepulchral, tenebrific, tenebrous, cloudy, dreich, elegiac, elegiacal, lonely, lonesome, sunless, Cimmerian, melancholy, sad, joyless, mournful … more

Examples:

“Optimistic articles about the future give people an excuse to escape from relentlessly depressive news about the present.”

depressing

Causing depression or sadness.
Causing a reduction in economic activity.
Synonyms:

Examples:

“That feeling of dejection could be very depressing for a child if he is not able to establish a relationship he wants.”

“He experiences a profound sense of guilt for having left his mother working in a depressing environment in order to satisfy his selfish desires.”

“Individualism was an essential characteristic of the bedouin, which was accentuated by the harsh and depressing climate of the desert.”

depressional

Of or pertaining to psychological depression.
Of or pertaining to a physical depression.

depressed

unhappy; despondent

Suffering from clinical depression.

Suffering damaging effects of economic recession.
Synonyms:

sad, unhappy, down, gloomy, low, melancholy, dejected, glum, blue, despondent, downcast, crestfallen, disconsolate, downhearted, dispirited, miserable, woebegone, discouraged, moody, morose, pessimistic, saddened, sorrowful, mournful, cast down, doleful, somber, sombre, desolate, disheartened, dismal, fed up, heartsick, heartsore, oppressed, tearful, upset, bad, brokenhearted, daunted, droopy, forlorn, hangdog, heartbroken, heavyhearted, inconsolable, joyless, melancholic, sorry, woeful … more

Examples:

“I was really depressed and upset about him winning the election, like a lot of people.”

“All three models have a depressed handle on the bottom side of the hull.”

“The government made several attempts to encourage investment in depressed areas.”

depressoid

Resembling depression.
(pejorative) Depressing or miserable.

depressionless

(economics) Without a depression.
(cartography) Without areas of undefined flow direction (sinks).
Examples:

“Sober citizens were becoming persuaded that a panicless, depressionless era had begun.”

depressogenic

Causing or tending to cause depression.

depressionogenic

Alternative form of depressogenic

depressible

Capable of being depressed (pushed down).
Examples:

“User selectable switches for setting the desired functional operation of the apparatus and a manually depressible panic button are also provided.”

“It has a small, depressible head piece, with a narrow channel running through it.”

“The pelvic fins are shorter than the pectorals, have a poorly developed membrane, and are depressible into ventral grooves.”

depressable

Alternative form of depressible

depressionary

(economics) Characteristic of a depression

depressionlike

(economics) Resembling a depression

depressant

reducing functional or nervous activity.
Synonyms:

Examples:

“Alcohol has a stronger and faster depressant effect on the brain, causing memory loss and problems with coordination.”

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