Hold down, break someone's heart, bridle, activate, and exert pressure on are all synonyms for depress. Encourage and raise are these antonyms of depress. And here are another 76 synonyms for depress.
Depress Synonyms
1. sadden
- Break someone's heart
- Break someone's spirit
- Bring tears to someone's eyes
- Cast down
- Cause suffering to
- Crush
- Dampen someone's spirits
- Dash someone's hopes
- Daunt
- Demoralize
- Desolate
- Discourage
- Dishearten
- Dispirit
- Distress
- Get down
- Give someone the blues
- Grieve
- Hang over
- Harrow
- Haunt
- Knock for six
- Knock sideways
- Knock the stuffing out of
- Make desolate
- Make despondent
- Make gloomy
- Make sad
- Make someone fed up
- Make someone's heart bleed
- Make unhappy
- Oppress
- Sadden
- Shake
- Upset
- Weigh down
- Weigh heavily on
- Deject
2. reduce
- Bridle
- Cheapen
- Check
- Curb
- Cut
- Deflate
- Depreciate
- Devalue
- Devitalize
- Diminish
- Discount
- Downgrade
- Impair
- Inhibit
- Keep down
- Limit
- Lower
- Mark down
- Put down
- Reduce
- Restrict
- Sap
- Slash
- Slow down
- Slow up
- Weaken
- Axe
3. lower
- Activate
- Exert pressure on
- Hold down
- Lower
- Operate
- Press (down)
- Push (down)
- Tap
- Thumb
- Actuate