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nondepressed

nondepressed

4.4
Not feeling sad or low in mood
  • adjective
  • /ˌnɒndɪˈprɛst/
: 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.