Antonyms for depress
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : dih-pres |
| Phonetic Transcription : dɪˈprɛs |
- activate
- admire
- aid
- approve
- assist
- calm
- cheer
- comfort
- compliment
- delight
- elevate
- encourage
- energize
- enhance
- enlarge
- exalt
- excite
- expand
- extend
- flatter
- grow
- hearten
- help
- honor
- improve
- increase
- inspirit
- invigorate
- laud
- lift
- make happy
- order
- please
- praise
- push up
- raise
- rise
- soothe
- stimulate
- strengthen
- upgrade
- uplift
Definition of depress
Origin :- early 14c., "put down by force," from Old French depresser, from Late Latin depressare, frequentative of Latin deprimere "press down," from de- "down" (see de-) + premere "to press" (see press (v.1)).
- Meaning "push down physically" is from early 15c.; that of "deject, make gloomy" is from 1620s; economic sense of "lower in value" is from 1878. Related: Depressed; depressing.
- verb deject, make despondent; exhaust
- verb devalue
- verb push down
- They may be necessary—as buffers—but they depress us by their dulness.
- Extract from : « Mountain Meditations » by L. Lind-af-Hageby
- It only needed a great shock to depress him to make his case hopeless.
- Extract from : « Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. » by Charles James Lever
- Wade did not depress the muzzle, if I recollect aright, at all.
- Extract from : « Left on Labrador » by Charles Asbury Stephens
- Her manner at the same time seemed to depress him and yet to fill him with hope.
- Extract from : « Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo » by E. Phillips Oppenheim
- Alone of all superiors, the saint does not depress the human dignity of others.
- Extract from : « A Short History of England » by G. K. Chesterton
- That truth should not comfort the conservative nor depress the radical.
- Extract from : « A Preface to Politics » by Walter Lippmann
- Not even the fact that there were no caddies left and I had to carry my own clubs could depress me.
- Extract from : « Once a Week » by Alan Alexander Milne
- This misfortune, however, could not depress my youthful spirits.
- Extract from : « The Oriental Story Book » by Wilhelm Hauff
- But the sight, though it awes us, does not depress us or deter us.
- Extract from : « The Heart of Nature » by Francis Younghusband
- An effort not to depress or discourage others may be right and my duty.
- Extract from : « Robert Orange » by John Oliver Hobbes
Synonyms for depress
- abase
- afflict
- ail
- bear down
- beat
- beat down
- bother
- bug
- bum out
- cast down
- cheapen
- chill
- couch
- cow
- damp
- dampen
- darken
- daunt
- debase
- debilitate
- degrade
- demit
- depreciate
- desolate
- devitalize
- diminish
- dip
- discourage
- dishearten
- dismay
- dispirit
- distress
- disturb
- downgrade
- drag
- drain
- droop
- dull
- enervate
- faze
- flatten
- impair
- keep under
- lessen
- let down
- level
- lower
- mock
- mortify
- oppress
- perturb
- press
- press down
- put down
- reduce
- reduce to tears
- run down
- sadden
- sap
- scorn
- settle
- sink
- slow
- smoosh
- squash
- throw cold water on
- torment
- trouble
- try
- turn one off
- upset
- weaken
- weary
- weigh down
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