depressed vs descending

depressed

adj
  • Reduced to a lower degree or form. 

  • Unhappy; despondent. 

  • Suffering damaging effects of economic recession. 

  • Suffering from clinical depression. 

descending

adj
  • Becoming lower in pitch. 

  • Ordered such that each element is less than or equal to the previous element. 

  • Moving or sloping downwards. 

  • Causing a sequence to follow a descending order. 

noun
  • A descent. 

How often have the words depressed and descending occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )