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depression

noun

1 depression

A mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity.

Roget 837: dejection; dejectedness etc. adj.; depression, prosternation; lowness of spirits, depression of spirits; weight on the spirits, oppression on the spirits, damp on the spirits; low spirits, bad spirits, drooping spirits, ... show more

Roget 308: lowering etc. v.; depression; dip etc. (concavity) 252; abasement; detrusion; reduction.    overthrow, overset, overturn; ... show more

Roget 257: notch, dent, nick, cut; indent, indentation; dimple.    embrasure, battlement, machicolation; saw, tooth, crenelle, scallop, ... show more

Roget 252: concavity, depression, dip; hollow, hollowness; indentation, intaglio, cavity, dent, dint, dimple, follicle, pit, sinus, ... show more

Roget 208: depth; deepness etc. adj.; profundity, depression etc. (concavity) 252.    hollow, pit, shaft, well, ... show more

Roget 207: lowness etc. adj.; debasement, depression, prostration etc. (horizontal) 213; depression etc. (concave) 252.    molehill; ... show more

Roget 859: hopelessness etc. adj.; despair, desperation; despondency, depression etc. (dejection) 837; pessimism, pessimist; Job's comforter; bird of bad omen, ... show more

Dutch: crisis
Polish: depresja, załamanie

2 depression

A long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment.

synonyms: economic crisis, slump.

Dutch: handelscrisis
Polish: faza depresji

3 depression

A sunken or depressed geological formation.

synonym: natural depression.

Dutch: kom, laagte

4 depression

Sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy.

Polish: zgnębienie, przygnębienie

5 Depression

A period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic depression and mass unemployment.

synonym: Great Depression.

6 depression

An air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation.

synonym: low.

Dutch: depressie, depressiegebied, lagedrukgebied, stormdepressie
Polish: depresja, niż

7 depression

A state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention.

synonyms: clinical depression, depressive disorder.

Roget 503: disordered reason, disordered intellect; diseased mind, unsound mind, abnormal mind; derangement, unsoundness; psychosis; neurosis; cognitive disorder; affective disorder.    insanity, lunacy; madness ... show more

8 depression

A concavity in a surface produced by pressing.

synonyms: impression, imprint.

Dutch: afdruk

9 depression

Angular distance below the horizon (especially of a celestial object).

10 depression

Pushing down.


Moby thesaurus: Schmerz, Slough of Despond, abatement, abridgment, abstraction, abulia, aching heart, agony, agony of mind, alienation, alleviation, alveolation, alveolus, anguish, antrum, anxiety, anxiety equivalent, anxiety state, apathy, armpit ... show more.

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