Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not pressed down; not lowered; not sunk below the surface.
- Not depressed, dejected, or cast down.
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Examples
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The writing enterprise seemed to me self-evidently a desperate one, and though my mother and I - both only children – had been desperate enough to undertake it, I thought my children, raised in a gentler, undepressed, gregarious world, would seek out less chancy and more orthodox professions.
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The writing enterprise seemed to me self-evidently a desperate one, and though my mother and I - both only children – had been desperate enough to undertake it, I thought my children, raised in a gentler, undepressed, gregarious world, would seek out less chancy and more orthodox professions.
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The writing enterprise seemed to me self-evidently a desperate one, and though my mother and I - both only children – had been desperate enough to undertake it, I thought my children, raised in a gentler, undepressed, gregarious world, would seek out less chancy and more orthodox professions.
From John Updike’s ‘Writers as Progenitors and Offspring’ 2009
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A species of blank interval, a nod or fugue in which he was neither depressed nor undepressed, not struggling to finish a thought nor to begin one.
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As I related, that argument began to fail when word leaked out that, in clinical trials that Pfizer withheld from the FDA and again in a test by David Healy, undepressed patients experienced the same symptoms that had been blamed on depression.
The Truth About Prozac: An Exchange Curzon, Gerald 2008
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Sunday, I was so undepressed that I willingly went on a 3.5 hour hike up a bunch of mountain peaks with Linda and her co-worker.
Lesbian boobies, hello kitty vibrators & me Elizabeth McClung 2006
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Ian Curtis, the lead singer of Joy Division committed suicide early on; it would have been good to hear his voice undepressed.
Unfinished. Ann Althouse 2006
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In the meantime, try to stay dry and undepressed, Pacific Northwesterners, and keep up the good work!
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The Democratic Win has made me "greatly undepressed."
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Sunday, I was so undepressed that I willingly went on a 3.5 hour hike up a bunch of mountain peaks with Linda and her co-worker.
Archive 2006-06-01 Elizabeth McClung 2006
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