Depressed vs Disheartened - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between depressed and disheartened

is that depressed is past tense of depress while disheartened is past tense of dishearten.

is that depressed is unhappy, and blaming oneself rather than others; despondent while disheartened is discouraged, despairing.

(head)

(depress)

(en adjective)

unhappy, and blaming oneself rather than others; despondent

Suffering from clinical depression.

Suffering damaging effects of economic recession.

* depressedly * depressedness

* despondent * gloomy * melancholy * miserable * sad * unhappy * emo (qualifier)

* cheerful

(en adjective)

Discouraged, despairing.

* 2004 , , Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage :

He refused to get disheartened , even when all 50 writers polled by Newsweek predicted he would lose.

* dejected, dispirited, down in the mouth, sad, down in the dumps

(head)

(dishearten)