DEPRESSION
Definition:
- [noun] a mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity
- [noun] a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment
Synonyms: slump, economic crisis
- [noun] a sunken or depressed geological formation
Synonyms: natural
- [noun] sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy
- [noun] a time period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic depression and mass unemployment
Synonyms: Depression, the Depression, the Great Depression
- [noun] an air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation; "a low moved in over night bringing sleet and snow"
Synonyms: low, low pressure
- [noun] a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention
Synonyms: depressive disorder, clinical
- [noun] a concavity in a surface produced by pressing; "he left the impression of his fingers in the soft mud"
Synonyms: impression, imprint
- [noun] angular distance below the horizon (especially of a celestial object)
- [noun] pushing down; "depression of the space bar on the typewriter"
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Related Words:
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melancholia
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blues, blue devils, megrims, vapors, vapours
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funk, blue funk
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melancholy
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slough of despond
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low spirits
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dejection
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Great Depression
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basin
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bed, bottom
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crater
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hole, hollow
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lowland
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sinkhole, sink, swallow hole
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trench, deep, oceanic abyss
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trough
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valley, vale
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demoralization, demoralisation
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helplessness
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despondency, despondence, heartsickness, disconsolateness
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oppression, oppressiveness
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dysphoria
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agitated depression
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anaclitic depression
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dysthymia, dysthymic depression
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endogenous depression
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exogenous depression, reactive depression
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major depressive episode
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neurotic depression
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psychotic depression
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retarded depression
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dimple
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groove, channel
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dimple
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dip
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incision, scratch, prick, slit, dent
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sag, droop
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wrinkle, furrow, crease, crinkle, seam, line
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crevice, cranny, crack, fissure, chap
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click, mouse click