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Depressed vs Solitary - What's the difference?

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Depressed is a related term of solitary.


As adjectives the difference between depressed and solitary

is that depressed is unhappy, and blaming oneself rather than others; despondent while solitary is living or being by one's self; alone; having no companion present; being without associates.

As a verb depressed

is (depress).

As a noun solitary is

one who lives alone, or in solitude; an anchoret, hermit or recluse.

depressed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (depress)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • unhappy, and blaming oneself rather than others; despondent
  • Suffering from clinical depression.
  • Suffering damaging effects of economic recession.

    • Derived terms

    * depressedly * depressedness

    Synonyms

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

    Antonyms

    * cheerful

    solitary

    English

    (wikipedia solitary)

    Noun

    (solitaries)
  • One who lives alone, or in solitude; an anchoret, hermit or recluse.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Living or being by one's self; alone; having no companion present; being without associates.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Obama goes troll-hunting , passage=The solitary , lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.}}
  • Performed, passed, or endured alone; as, a solitary journey; a solitary life.
  • Not much visited or frequented; remote from society; retired.
  • Not inhabited or occupied; without signs of inhabitants or occupation; desolate; deserted; silent; still; hence, gloomy; dismal.
    • the solitary desert
  • * Bible, Lam. i. 1
    • How doth the city sit solitary , that was full of people.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1931, author=
    • , chapter=1/1, title= Death Walks in Eastrepps , passage=Eldridge closed the despatch-case with a snap and, rising briskly, walked down the corridor to his solitary table in the dining-car.}}
  • Single; individual; sole.
  • (botany) Not associated with others of the same kind.

    • Derived terms

    * solitariness * solitary confinement * solitary sandpiper * solitary snipe * solitary thrush * solitary tinamou

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