Depressing vs. Depressed: What's the Difference?
Depressing and Depressed Definitions
Depressing
Causing sadness, gloom, or dejection
Depressing news.
A depressing movie.
Rainy, depressing weather.
Depressed
Feeling or characterized by sadness or dejection
Depressed after losing her job.
A depressed mood.
Depressing
Causing depression or sadness.
The television news was depressing, so rather than start crying I turned it off.
Depressed
Affected with depression as a mood disorder.
Depressing
Causing a reduction in economic activity.
The policy may have a depressing effect on some branches of industry.
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Depressed
Sunk below the surrounding region
The depressed center of a crater.
Depressing
Present participle of depress
Depressed
Lower in amount, degree, or position
Oil reserves were at depressed levels because of increasing industrial demands.
Depressing
Causing dejection;
A blue day
The dark days of the war
A week of rainy depressing weather
A disconsolate winter landscape
The first dismal dispiriting days of November
A dark gloomy day
Grim rainy weather
Depressed
Sluggish in growth or activity
A depressed sector of the economy.
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Depressing
Causing or suggestive of sorrow or gloom;
A gloomy outlook
Gloomy news
Depressed
Suffering from social and economic hardship
A depressed region.
Depressed
(Botany) Flattened downward, as if pressed from above.
Depressed
(Zoology) Flattened along the dorsal and ventral surfaces.
Depressed
Simple past tense and past participle of depress
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Depressed
Unhappy; despondent.
Depressed
Suffering from clinical depression.
Depressed
Suffering damaging effects of economic recession.
Depressed
(mathematics) Reduced to a lower degree or form.
The cubic function x3 + cx + d = 0, where one of the terms has a coefficient of zero, is a depressed cubic.
Depressed
Pressed or forced down; lowed; sunk; dejected; dispirited; sad; humbled.
Depressed
Concave on the upper side; - said of a leaf whose disk is lower than the border.
Depressed
Having the vertical diameter shorter than the horizontal or transverse; - said of the bodies of animals, or of parts of the bodies.
Depressed
Lower than previously;
The market is depressed
Prices are down
Depressed
Flattened downward as if pressed from above or flattened along the dorsal and ventral surfaces
Depressed
Low in spirits;
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
Depressed
Having the central portion lower than the margin;
A depressed pustule
