depressed vs subnormal

depressed

adj
  • Reduced to a lower degree or form. 

  • Unhappy; despondent. 

  • Suffering damaging effects of economic recession. 

  • Suffering from clinical depression. 

subnormal

adj
  • Less than normal. 

  • denormal 

noun
  • A person whose abilities are less than normal. 

  • That part of the axis of a curved line which is intercepted between the ordinate and the normal. 

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