· lower someone's spirits; make downhearted; "These news depressed her"; "The bad state of her child's health demoralizes her"

Synonym(s): deject, cast_down, get_down, dismay, dispirit, demoralize, demoralise

Hypernym(s): discourage

Antonym(s): elate

· lower (prices or markets); "The glut of oil depressed gas prices"

Hypernym(s): lower, take_down, let_down, get_down, bring_down

· cause to drop or sink; "The lack of rain had depressed the water level in the reservoir"

Synonym(s): lower

Hypernym(s): change, alter, modify

· press down; "Depress the space key"

Synonym(s): press_down

Hypernym(s): move, displace

· lessen the activity or force of; "The rising inflation depressed the economy"

Hypernym(s): weaken

· lower than previously; "the market is depressed"; "prices are down"

Synonym(s): down

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

· 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"

Synonym(s): gloomy, grim, blue, dispirited, down, downcast, downhearted, down_in_the_mouth, low, low-spirited