'Depression' definitions:
Definition of 'depression'
(from WordNet)
noun
A mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity [ant: elation]
noun
A long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment [syn: depression, slump, economic crisis]
noun
A sunken or depressed geological formation [syn: natural depression, depression] [ant: elevation, natural elevation]
noun
Sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy
noun
A period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic depression and mass unemployment [syn: Depression, Great Depression]
noun
An air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation; "a low moved in over night bringing sleet and snow" [syn: low, depression]
noun
A state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention [syn: depressive disorder, clinical depression, depression]
noun
A concavity in a surface produced by pressing; "he left the impression of his fingers in the soft mud" [syn: depression, impression, imprint]
noun
Angular distance below the horizon (especially of a celestial object)
noun
Pushing down; "depression of the space bar on the typewriter"
Definition of 'Depression'
From: GCIDE
- Depression \De*pres"sion\, n. [L. depressio: cf. F. d['e]pression.]
- 1. The act of depressing. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The state of being depressed; a sinking. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A falling in of the surface; a sinking below its true place; a cavity or hollow; as, roughness consists in little protuberances and depressions. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Humiliation; abasement, as of pride. [1913 Webster]
- 5. Dejection; despondency; lowness. [1913 Webster]
- In a great depression of spirit. --Baker. [1913 Webster]
- 6. Diminution, as of trade, etc.; inactivity; dullness. [1913 Webster]
- 7. (Astron.) The angular distance of a celestial object below the horizon. [1913 Webster]
- 8. (Math.) The operation of reducing to a lower degree; -- said of equations. [1913 Webster]
- 9. (Surg.) A method of operating for cataract; couching. See Couch, v. t., 8. [1913 Webster]
- Angle of depression (Geod.), one which a descending line makes with a horizontal plane.
- Depression of the dewpoint (Meteor.), the number of degrees that the dew-point is lower than the actual temperature of the atmosphere.
- Depression of the pole, its apparent sinking, as the spectator goes toward the equator.
- Depression of the visible horizon. (Astron.) Same as {Dip of the horizon}, under Dip.
- Syn: Abasement; reduction; sinking; fall; humiliation; dejection; melancholy. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'depression'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abatement,
- abridgment,
- abstraction,
- abulia,
- aching heart,
- agony,
- agony of mind,
- alienation,
- alleviation,
- alveolation,
- alveolus,
- anguish,
- antrum,
- anxiety,
- anxiety equivalent,
- anxiety state,
- apathy,
- armpit,
- attenuation,
- bad times,
- bale,
- basin,
- bitterness,
- blank despondency,
- blaze,
- bleakness,
- bleeding heart,
- blues,
- boom,
- bottoming out,
- bowl,
- broken heart,
- business cycle,
- business fluctuations,
- bust,
- catatonic stupor,
- cavity,
- cheerlessness,
- cleft,
- comfortlessness,
- compulsion,
- concave,
- concavity,
- contraction,
- cooling off,
- couchancy,
- crater,
- crena,
- crisis,
- crushing,
- crypt,
- cup,
- cut,
- dampening,
- damping,
- death wish,
- debasement,
- decrease,
- decrement,
- decrescence,
- deduction,
- deepening,
- deflation,
- dejectedness,
- dejection,
- dent,
- depreciation,
- depth of misery,
- desolation,
- despair,
- despondency,
- despondentness,
- detachment,
- digging,
- diminishment,
- diminution,
- dimple,
- dip,
- discomfort,
- discouragement,
- disheartenment,
- dismalness,
- dispiritedness,
- distress,
- distressfulness,
- down trip,
- downcastness,
- downer,
- downheartedness,
- downturn,
- dreariness,
- drilling,
- drooping spirits,
- dying,
- dying off,
- economic cycle,
- economic expansion,
- economic growth,
- economic stagnation,
- elation,
- emotionalism,
- euphoria,
- evil day,
- excavation,
- expanding economy,
- expansion,
- extenuation,
- extremity,
- fade-out,
- fold,
- folie du doute,
- follicle,
- funnel chest,
- gash,
- gloom,
- gloominess,
- glumness,
- grief,
- grievousness,
- growth,
- hack,
- hard times,
- heartache,
- heartlessness,
- heavy heart,
- heavy weather,
- high growth rate,
- hole,
- hollow,
- hollow shell,
- hollowness,
- hopelessness,
- hypochondria,
- hysteria,
- hysterics,
- impression,
- incision,
- incurvation,
- incurvature,
- incurvity,
- indentation,
- indifference,
- infelicity,
- insensibility,
- jag,
- jog,
- joggle,
- joylessness,
- kerf,
- lacuna,
- lamentability,
- lamentation,
- languishment,
- lessening,
- lethargy,
- letup,
- low,
- low spirits,
- lowering,
- lowness,
- lowness of spirit,
- lying,
- lying down,
- malaise,
- mania,
- market expansion,
- melancholia,
- melancholy,
- mental distress,
- miniaturization,
- mining,
- misery,
- mitigation,
- mournfulness,
- nick,
- nock,
- notch,
- obsession,
- oppression,
- pain,
- painfulness,
- pathological indecisiveness,
- pathos,
- peak,
- peaking,
- pessimism,
- pit,
- pitiability,
- pitiableness,
- pitifulness,
- pocket,
- poignancy,
- preoccupation,
- probing,
- proneness,
- prosperity,
- prostration,
- psychalgia,
- psychomotor disturbance,
- punch bowl,
- rainy day,
- recess,
- recession,
- reclining,
- recovery,
- recumbency,
- reduction,
- regrettableness,
- relaxation,
- sad times,
- sadness,
- sagging,
- scaling down,
- Schmerz,
- scoop,
- score,
- scotch,
- self-destructive urge,
- sharpness,
- shell,
- shortness,
- simplicity,
- sink,
- sinkage,
- sinking,
- sinking heart,
- sinus,
- Slough of Despond,
- slowdown,
- slump,
- socket,
- sorrowfulness,
- spiritlessness,
- squatness,
- squattiness,
- stormy weather,
- stumpiness,
- stupor,
- subjacency,
- subtraction,
- suicidal despair,
- supineness,
- taedium vitae,
- the blues,
- tic,
- trough,
- tunneling,
- twitching,
- unhappiness,
- unresponsiveness,
- upturn,
- vug,
- weakening,
- weariness of life,
- withdrawal,
- woe,
- woebegoneness,
- woefulness,
- wretchedness
Words containing 'Depression'
- Depress,
- Depressant,
- Depressed,
- Depressing,
- Depressingly,
- Depressive,
- Depressiveness,
- Angle of depression,
- Depression of the dewpoint,
- Depression of the pole,
- To depress the pole,
- agitated depression,
- anaclitic depression,
- clinical depression,
- depressed fracture,
- depressive disorder,
- dysthymic depression,
- endogenous depression,
- exogenous depression,
- great depression,
- involutional depression,
- manic depression,
- manic depressive,
- natural depression,
- neurotic depression,
- psychotic depression,
- reactive depression,
- retarded depression,
- unipolar depression,
- Depression of the visible horizon,
- major depressive episode,
- manic depressive illness,
- manic-depressive,
- manic-depressive psychosis