depress

Meaning

1. To press down.
2. To make depressed, sad or bored.
3. To cause a depression or a decrease in parts of the economy.
4. To bring down or humble; to abase (pride, etc.).
5. To reduce (an equation) in a lower degree.

Synonyms

discourage

dispirit

sadden

deject

oppress

dishearten

lower

be gloomy

disappoint

drop

humiliate

demoralise

demoralize

weaken

get down

dismay

press

press down

press down on

dent

aggrieve

cast down

overcome

enfeeble

make sad

sorrow

enervate

grieve

dash

💨

tyrannize

debilitate

indent

abase

darken

dampen

damp

mortify

dip

discharge

distress

down

downcast

dull

ebb

emasculate

embed

enumerate

excavate

exhaust

faint

fall

figure

force

go down

go through

grub

hack

hammer

🔨

humble

imbed

impair

impress

imprint

keep down

kill

🔪🩸👤

knock down

let

let down

liquidate

lour

melancholy

mope

number

🔢

numerate

overpower

overthrow

overwhelm

pass through

pine

posit

pull down

push

pushdown

put down

put off

quiet

quiten

rack

reckon

reduce

repress

sag

set

shake

shoot

shoot dead

sink

slaughter

slay

sluice

soften

soothe

stand

stick

still

subjugate

sulk

suppress

surmount

tackle

take away

take down

tap

tranquilize

trim down

unbrace

unman

upset

use up

vanquish

wash out

weigh

weigh down

work out

worry

worsen

be depressed

be helpless

be melancholy

force down

haul down

squeeze in

weigh on

devitalise

be at one’s wit end

be dispirit

disspirit

sag down

tabefy

defervesce

ebb off

ebb out

win over

abate

appease

assuage

bang

bear down

bear down on

beat

blunt

boil down

breakdown

butcher

calculate

calm

carry weight

chop

cipher

clench

click on

come down

compute

constrain

count

🔢

cover

cramp

cut off

cypher

debouch

decline

decrease

de-escalate

defeat

deflate

dejected

demolish

devitalize

dig up

Pronounced as (IPA)

/dɪˈpɹɛs/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: depressen

In summary

From Middle English depressen, from Old French depresser, from Latin dēpressus, perfect participle of dēprimō (“to press down, to weigh down”), from dē- (“off, away, down, out”) + premō (“to press”).