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nondepressed

nondepressed

4.4
Not feeling sad or low in mood
  • adjective
  • /ˌnɒndɪˈprɛst/
translation icon : no deprimido
  • After a good night's sleep, she woke up nondepressed and ready to face the day.
  • nondepressed children
  • nondepressed individuals
  • nondepressed women

Examples

  • Depressed children showed less play behavior than nondepressed ones, regardless of mood induction.

    Academic text (2000)
  • Specifically, depressed individuals attributed 32.8% of their problems to complex causes, while nondepressed individuals attributed 21.3% of their problems to complex causes.

    Academic text (1994)
  • Although the expected group difference between depressed and nondepressed individuals was obtained, it was relatively small in magnitude.

    Academic text (1994)
  • The observations of the matched child of the nondepressed control group were deleted, too.

    Academic text (2000)
  • Sixteen children participated in this study, eight depressed and eight nondepressed.

    Academic text (2000)
  • Next, we compared the depressed and nondepressed children in regard to their nonplay behavior.

    Academic text (2000)
  • In addition, the behavior of depressed children showed less coherence than the behavior of the nondepressed children.

    Academic text (2000)
  • GRAPH: Figure 3. The women with depressive symptoms reported experiencing less sexual satisfaction and less sexual pleasure than nondepressed women.

    Academic text (2002)
  • As expected, the analyses revealed that depressed subjects, relative to nondepressed subjects, made a greater number of attributions involving more than one cause.

    Academic text (1994)
  • To briefly recap findings, depressed 3-to-6-year-old children showed less play behavior than matched nondepressed children.

    Academic text (2000)

Synonyms

undepressed
vsnondepressed
1 5.1

Not feeling sad or hopeless

is identical in meaning but uses a different negative prefix in writing

Antonyms

441 3.5

Feeling very sad and without hope

How Depressed

depressed
441 3.5
sad
1.0
nondepressed
4.4
content
108 1.0

Surface Forms

nondepressed positive

Morphology

nondepressed = depressed (transparent) = non + depress + ed

The structure is non- + depressed (adjective for low mood); the negation is straightforward for learners.

Etymology

Nondepressed is made of non- 'not' and depress 'to press down', so you can think of someone not pressed down by sadness. So a nondepressed person is someone who does not feel low or overwhelmed by depression.