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depressed

/dɪˈpɹɛst/adjective, verb

depressed is spelled D-E-P-R-E-S-S-E-D: 9 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 14 times per million words in written English, the 5,679th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, depressed means “Unhappy; despondent” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in depressed?

Letters9: D-E-P-R-E-S-S-E-D
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing14 times per million words; the 5,679th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is depressed?

Depressed appears 14 times per million words in written English, the 5,679th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce depressed?

  • US /dɪˈpɹɛst/

Depressed has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Persent101-depressed.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with depressed?

The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as depressed from its last stressed vowel (/ɛst/):

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of depressed

  • more depressed comparative
  • most depressed superlative

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does depressed mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    Unhappy; despondent.

  2. 2

    Suffering from clinical depression.

  3. 3

    Suffering damaging effects of economic recession.

  4. 4

    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.

verb

  1. 1

    simple past and past participle of depress (a form of depress)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Depressed in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchdéprimé, dépressif, mélancolique (severely despondent and unhappy)
Germandeprimiert, gedrückt, niedergedrückt, bedrückt (severely despondent and unhappy), depressiv (suffering from clinical depression)
Portuguesedeprimido (severely despondent and unhappy)
Spanishdeprimido, abatido (severely despondent and unhappy)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does depressed come from?

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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