Antonyms for depressed
dɪˈprɛstde·pressed

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1. depressedadjective

   Antonyms:
   cheerful

   Synonyms:
   unhappy, despondent, miserable, melancholy, sad, gloomy

2. depressedadjective

   unhappy, and blaming oneself rather than others; despondent

   Antonyms:
   cheerful

   Synonyms:
   sad, unhappy, miserable, melancholy, despondent, gloomy

3. depressedadjective

   Suffering from clinical depression.

   Antonyms:
   cheerful

   Synonyms:
   gloomy, miserable, despondent, sad, unhappy, melancholy

4. depressedadjective

   Suffering damaging effects of economic recession.

   Synonyms:
   sad, gloomy, unhappy, melancholy, miserable, despondent

   Antonyms:
   cheerful

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1. depressed

   Antonyms:
   elevated, eminent, exalted, high, lofty, noble, proud, steep, tall, towering, uplifted

   Synonyms:
   base, deep, degraded, dwarfed, inferior, low, mean, short, stunted

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Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. depressed, down(p)adjective

   lower than previously

   "the market is depressed"; "prices are down"

   Antonyms:
   high, elated, thick

2. depressedadjective

   flattened downward as if pressed from above or flattened along the dorsal and ventral surfaces

   Antonyms:
   thick, elated, high

   Synonyms:
   low, low-spirited, downhearted, blue, gloomy, down in the mouth, downcast, grim, down(p), dispirited

3. gloomy, grim, blue, depressed, dispirited, down(p), downcast, downhearted, down in the mouth, low, low-spiritedadjective

   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"

   Antonyms:
   high, thick, elated

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1. depressedadjective

   Synonyms:
   dejected, dispirited

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1. ecstatified

   depression is the opposite of ecstatified. depress means sadness and ecstatified means lit and spicy.

   the boy wasn't ecstatified but he was depressed because he lost his family during a fire.

   Submitted by laurenzside_1 on January 11, 2021  

2. happy

   when you feel like nobody wants you and you want to die.

   i am depressed because i watched jake paul

   Submitted by rinat on October 3, 2019  

How to use depressed in a sentence?

1. Demetri Martin:

   I bought a cactus. A week later it died. And I got depressed, because I thought, Damn. I am less nurturing than a desert.

2. Asher Weinberger:

   We were on our respective couches, in isolation, mutually depressed, asking each other,' What do we do with this last $ 10,000 ?' we ultimately decided we're going to take a Hail Mary pass.

3. Erika Forbes:

   During preschool, children's increasing independence but less-than-optimal self-control can make it especially challenging for mothers (or any caregivers) to set limits, grant autonomy and resolve conflicts, if mothers are depressed, they might find themselves too exhausted or emotionally taxed to engage in the kind of vigorous parenting that preschoolers tend to need.

4. Christopher Dowrick:

   It's an important, cautionary note that we shouldn't get too carried away with the idea that a computer system can replace doctors and therapists, we do still need the human touch or the human interaction, particularly when people are depressed.

5. The IEA:

   For this reason, producers are likely to grow still more competitive on pricing, sour crude markets appear especially oversupplied with discounts versus sweet grades widening. Europe is awash with competing sour crudes from the FSU (former Soviet Union) and Middle East and U.S. sour crudes remained depressed by refinery maintenance.

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