depressed

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. adj. Low in spirits; dejected.
2. adj. Suffering from psychological depression.
3. adj. Sunk below the surrounding region: the depressed center of a crater.
4. adj. Lower in amount, degree, or position: Oil reserves were at depressed levels because of increasing industrial demands.
5. adj. Sluggish in growth or activity: a depressed sector of the economy.
6. adj. Suffering from social and economic hardship: a depressed region.
7. adj. Botany Flattened downward, as if pressed from above.
8. adj. Zoology Flattened along the dorsal and ventral surfaces.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. Pressed down; lowered; put on a level with or below the surface: as, a depressed railroad. Specifically
2. In anatomy and zoology, pressed downward, or flattened from above, and therefore broader than high: as, a depressed fish—for example, the skate; the depressed bill of a bird, as that of the swallow: opposed to compressed.
3. In botany, flattened vertically; sunk below the surrounding margin: as, a depressed plant (one whose growth, is lateral rather than upward).
4. In heraldry, surmounted or debruised. See debruised.

Wiktionary

1. v. simple past tense and past participle of depress.
2. adj. unhappy, and blaming oneself rather than others; despondent
3. adj. Suffering from clinical depression.
4. adj. Suffering damaging effects of economic recession.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. adj. Pressed or forced down; lowed; sunk; dejected; dispirited; sad; humbled.
2. adj. Concave on the upper side; -- said of a leaf whose disk is lower than the border.
3. adj. Lying flat; -- said of a stem or leaf which lies close to the ground.
4. adj. Having the vertical diameter shorter than the horizontal or transverse; -- said of the bodies of animals, or of parts of the bodies.

WordNet 3.0

1. adj. lower than previously
2. adj. filled with melancholy and despondency
3. adj. flattened downward as if pressed from above or flattened along the dorsal and ventral surfaces