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say it: di-PREST
depressed is an adjective meaning "lower than previously". It is pronounced /dɪˈpɹɛst/ — di-PREST. It carries 3 recorded senses.
flattened downward as if pressed from above or flattened along the dorsal and ventral surfaces
biology
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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for depressed come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.