deflated

Adjective

deflated (comparative more deflated, superlative most deflated)

1. Empty of all the air or gas that was or could be inside.
   • While, of course it is not advisable to run on a deflated tire, tests have been made which showed that this type of tire was not damaged after it was running several miles.1924 August 1, “The Drop-Center Rim”, in Automobile Trade Journal, volume 29, number 2, page 45
   • Except for turnings with a deflated rear tire as an outerside tire, difference in the performance is small between fixed control and manual control.1974, Shoichi Sano, “Steering and Handling Characteristics of a Vehicle when Fail-safe Tire is Deflated”, in Fifth International Technical Conference on Experimental Safety Vehicles, page 909
2. (figuratively) Disappointed; depressed, especially after having been hopeful or in high spirits.
   • I sat down in the lounge at K.G. very deflated and also concerned.2013, Irene Taylor, The Chateau
   • Our self-esteem is so low, our healthy ego so deflated, that we can't imagine having a life that is truly free.2015, David Richo, You Are Not What You Think, page 67
3. Reduced or lowered.
   • Instead, a terrific escalation of corporate rivalries was combined with a deflated power medium and an exceedingly inflated influence medium, particularly in the area of purely technical expertise.1976, Jan J. Loubser, Explorations in General Theory in Social Science, page 602
   • We will thus be left with a deflated concept of truth — a "thin" concept whose understanding is exhausted by the deflationary account of "true," a concept that is isolated from all other concepts of interest to us and can play no substantive explanatory role with respect to them.2007, Dirk Greimann, Geo Siegwart, Truth and Speech Acts: Studies in the Philosophy of Language, page 62
4. Adjusted downward to compensate for inflation.
   • Among these relationships are the correlation for the years 1923-40 of personal saving and disposable personal income in current dollars, the correlation of deflated per capita saving with deflated per capita income, the correlation of saving with income and accumulated liquid assets on a deflated...1949 September, Irwin Friend, “Personal Saving in the Postwar Period”, in Survey of Current Business, volume 29, number 9
   • In general, the output measure used in calculating these indexes is based on a deflated value concept and is developed in the following way:1971, United States. Commission on International Trade and Investment Policy, United States International Economic Policy in an Interdependent World, page 508
5. Suffering from deflation.
   • The result is striking: durables unfilled orders fell almost continuously from the beginning of 1947 until the end of the recession, and there was only a submerged second cycle in the deflated purchased-materials investment series.1961, Inventory Fluctuations and Economic Stabilization
   • I am not talking about a deflated economy.1969, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations, District of Columbia Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1970, page 1194
6. Subsided or compressed downward.
   • A deflated hearth, about 5 m² in area, lay on the northernmost section of the surface concentration.1986, Fred Wendorf, Romuald Schild, Angela E. Close, Late Paleolithic Archaeology, page 365
   • Located on a deflated sandy surface 100m east of Azariq I, this was apparently a small 40 m2, transitional Kebaran/Geometric Kebaran occupation which was largely destroyed by tracked vehicles following discovery.1987, A. Nigel Goring-Morris, At the Edge: Terminal Pleistocene Hunter-gatherers in the Negev and Sinai, page 73