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单词 depressed
释义
depressed
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adj

When stocks are depressed they are worth less than they should be. When people are depressed they are sad and lack energy. Depressed means down in spirit or value.
While you'll often hear people say they are depressed, mostly they mean they are sad. If you are clinically depressed, you have a sadness and hopelessness that has physical effects and no logical reason behind it and you can't seem to shake it either. If someone calls their town or region depressed, they mean that the economy in that area is not good — in that place jobs are hard to find, and have been for quite a while. Sad, right?
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USAGE EXAMPLES
Suddenly Depressed: I don’t think this is silly at all, and I also believe it’s more common than you may realize.
Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016)
“Then I put on their special teams, and I got more depressed.”
Seattle Times(Dec 30, 2016)
Over the same period, the peso currency is down around 5 percent to the dollar, but other currencies in the region are also depressed.
Reuters(Dec 30, 2016)
1adj filled with melancholy and despondency
depressed by the loss of his job
Syn
blue, dispirited, down, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, gloomy, grim, low, low-spirited
dejected
affected or marked by low spirits
2adj lower than previously
the market is depressed
Syn
down
low
less than normal in degree or intensity or amount
3adj flattened downward as if pressed from above or flattened along the dorsal and ventral surfaces
Syn
thin
of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section
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