DICTOMETER

DEPRESSION

1. Synonyms:
   • Depression
   Definitions:
   • a mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity
   Antonyms:
   elation
   
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Depression
   • Slump
   • Economic crisis
   Definitions:
   • a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Natural depression
   • Depression
   Definitions:
   • a sunken or depressed geological formation
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Depression
   Definitions:
   • sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Depression
   • Great Depression
   Definitions:
   • a period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic depression and mass unemployment
   
   
6. Synonyms:
   • Low
   • Depression
   Definitions:
   • an air mass of lower pressure
   • often brings precipitation
   Examples:
   • A low moved in over night bringing sleet and snow
   
   
7. Synonyms:
   • Depressive disorder
   • Clinical depression
   • Depression
   Definitions:
   • a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention
   
   
8. Synonyms:
   • Depression
   • Impression
   • Imprint
   Definitions:
   • a concavity in a surface produced by pressing
   Examples:
   • He left the impression of his fingers in the soft mud
   
   
9. Synonyms:
   • Depression
   Definitions:
   • angular distance below the horizon (especially of a celestial object)
   
   
10. Synonyms:
    • Depression
    Definitions:
    • pushing down
    Examples:
    • Depression of the space bar on the typewriter