What's the difference between depressed and downcast?

Depressed


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Depress
  • (a.) Pressed or forced down; lowed; sunk; dejected; dispirited; sad; humbled.
  • (a.) Concave on the upper side; -- said of a leaf whose disk is lower than the border.
  • (a.) Lying flat; -- said of a stem or leaf which lies close to the ground.
  • (a.) Having the vertical diameter shorter than the horizontal or transverse; -- said of the bodies of animals, or of parts of the bodies.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He's Billy no-mates with a Heckler & Koch sniper-rifle, drowning in loneliness, booze and depression.
  • (2) Thyroid replacement led to resolution of both apnea and depression.
  • (3) During and after the infusion of 5HTP, none of the patients showed an increase in anxiety or depressive symptoms, despite the presence of severe side effects.
  • (4) Sixteen patients in whom schizophrenia was initially diagnosed and who were treated with fluphenazine enanthate or decanoate developed severe depression for a short period after the injection.
  • (5) Further, at the end of treatment fewer patients had depressive symptoms and the total daily number of hours of wellbeing and normal movement increased.
  • (6) The active agents modestly improved treadmill exercise duration time until 1 mm ST segment depression (3%), and only propranolol and diltiazem had significant effects.
  • (7) The ED50 and ED95 of mivacurium in each group were estimated from linear regression plots of log dose vs probit of maximum percentage depression of neuromuscular function.
  • (8) The data are compared with the results from 79 patients with a bipolar depression, 192 with a neurotic depression and 89 with a depressive reaction.
  • (9) A similar depressed receptor function was observed for C3b, fibronectin, and some lectins.
  • (10) From these results, it was suggested that the inhibitory effect of Cd on in vitro calcification of MC3T3-E1 cells may be due to both a depression of cell-mediated calcification and a decrease in physiochemical mineral deposition.
  • (11) Both treatments depressed nocturnal pineal melatonin content in rats and hamsters.
  • (12) Infusion of sodium lactate associated with isoproterenol could be used to combat the depressent effects of betablockers in patients with cardiac disorders.
  • (13) We studied the effects of the localisation and size of ischemic brain infarcts and the influence of potential covariates (gender, age, time since infarction, physical handicap, cognitive impairment, aphasia, cortical atrophy and ventricular size) on 'post-stroke depression'.
  • (14) The literature on depression and immunity is reviewed and the clinical implications of our findings are discussed.
  • (15) Subthreshold concentrations of the drug to induce complete blockade (5 x 10(-8)M) allowed to observe a greater depression of bioelectric cell characteristics in primary than in transitional fibres.
  • (16) However, a recrudescence in both psychotic and depressive symptoms developed as plasma desipramine levels rose 4 times higher than anticipated from the oral doses prescribed.
  • (17) These results indicate that the hormonal status should be taken into consideration in studies dealing with platelet MAO activity in depressed women.
  • (18) Three coyotes were operantly conditioned to depress one of two foot treadles, left or right, depending on the condition of the stimulus light.
  • (19) Although esmolol may be used as a primary hypotensive agent, the potential for marked myocardial depression must be recognized.
  • (20) Subjects who reported incidents of childhood sexual exploitation had lower levels of self-esteem and higher levels of depression than the comparison group.

Downcast


Definition:

  • (a.) Cast downward; directed to the ground, from bashfulness, modesty, dejection, or guilt.
  • (n.) Downcast or melancholy look.
  • (n.) A ventilating shaft down which the air passes in circulating through a mine.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Green campaigners were rejoicing over the departure of the climate sceptic, while the National Farmers' Union was downcast at the exit of a cabinet minister who consistently stuck up for rural areas.
  • (2) In a concession message posted on Facebook, Hofer urged his supporters to not be downcast.
  • (3) But a downcast-looking Slim had managed to fulfil his promise to play live for fans.
  • (4) Moyles opened the show after the 6.30am news bulletin sounding downcast and launched into a long diatribe: "Do you know what, I wasn't going to come in today.
  • (5) It’s not Trump,” said one downcast store-owner recently.
  • (6) I was in captivity for three months and 20 days,” she says, eyes downcast.
  • (7) Look at him earlier this week, a downcast shadow at his own manifesto launch.
  • (8) It's mood may be as relentlessly downcast as ever, but Amnesiac sees Radiohead drawing a vast array of sounds and influences into their woeful world.
  • (9) Defoe looked furious with himself for missing that one and his manager simply downcast as he chewed his gum with increasingly manic intensity.
  • (10) No downcast beams to light up what was coming, breaking water, way off the coast.
  • (11) Cameron, who began his own ARV treatment 15 years ago, added: "While people are downcast after Marikana [mine massacre] and the slowing economy, I think Aids point to a public service achievement and shows we can do it if we put our minds to it."
  • (12) Any honest reporter will record the sheer weight of indifference, ignorance and cynicism that sends you away downcast by the distance between the disengaged and our little world of political obsessives.
  • (13) "It's disappointing, I wasn't expecting this," said a deeply downcast Poyet.
  • (14) A downcast Pep Guardiola later admitted his defence's frailties.
  • (15) Aristide's wife stood with her eyes downcast, twisting a handkerchief.
  • (16) And Swanny, who is not the most demonstrative person on the planet, had this really weird look on his face and said, ‘You can’t give the j’accuse speech and then sit down and do your correspondence.’ I was thinking, ‘Well, that must have hit a bit harder than it felt.’” Across the chamber, her political foes looked suddenly downcast.
  • (17) Outfoxed, out of luck and abandoned as never before, he looked tired and downcast.
  • (18) In short, Luhansk, under the LPR, has become a city of downcast faces.
  • (19) Eyes downcast, head bowed, hands clasped and legs crossed; Eddie, an introverted wheelchair user, had been in a dementia care home for a decade when he began sessions with arts charity Age Exchange .
  • (20) A downcast Sanchez spent most of the hearing with his head bowed, appearing to fight back tears while the judge explained the charge to him.