Depression

Noun

 * 1)  an area that is lower in topography than its surroundings
 * 2)  in psychotherapy and psychiatry, a state of mind producing serious, long-term lowering of enjoyment of life or inability to visualize a happy future
 * 3)  in psychotherapy and psychiatry, a period of unhappiness or low morale which lasts longer than several weeks and may include ideation of self-inflicted injury or suicide
 * 4)  an area of lowered air pressure that generally brings moist weather, sometimes promoting hurricanes and tornadoes
 * 5)  a period of major economic contraction;
 * 6)  Four consecutive quarters of  negative, real GDP growth. See NBER.
 * The Great Depression was an event in US history.
 * 1)  a lowering, in particular a reduction in a particular biological variable or the function of an organ, in contrast to elevation

Adjectives for Depression

 * (business) prolonged; agricultural; successive (pi); mild; general; current; exaggerated; dreadful; evil; aching; acute; drastic; major; vast; long; business; economic; financial; industrial; national; world; price; severe.


 * (general) paralyzing; epidemic; enveloping; growing; inflation.
 * (spirits) low; nervous; sundry (pi); sympathetic; frequent; spiritual; constant; mental.


 * (surface) sheltered; circumscribed; shallow; cup-like; deep; noticeable; amphitheatrical; saucer-like ; extreme.

Verbs for Depression
aggravate—; alleviate—; banish—; emerge from—; intensify—; mitigate—; offset—; plunge into—; prolong—; relapse into—; survive—; tackle—; thaw out—; weather —; —annihilates; —blights; —grips; — hits; —slashes.

Synonyms for Depression
business decline, hard times, misery, gloom, poverty, sorrow, unhappiness, humiliation, abasement, dejection, melancholy.

Antonyms for Depression
business boom, joy, happiness, cheer, lightheartedness, comfort, satisfaction, contentment, elevation.

Related terms

 * depress
 * depressant
 * depressing
 * depressive

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, 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, scoop, score, scotch, self-destructive urge, sharpness, shell, shortness, simplicity, sink, sinkage, sinking, sinking heart, sinus, 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

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Arabic: منخفض
 * Bulgarian: падина
 * Catalan: depressió
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 洼地, 凹地
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Greek:


 * Hebrew: שפלה (shfela)
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 窪地
 * Korean: 움푹한 지대
 * Romanian: depresiune
 * Russian: впадина, воронка
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: depresyon


 * Afrikaans:, gemoedsbekakking
 * Arabic: اكتئاب, إحباط
 * Bulgarian: униние, депресия
 * Catalan: depressió
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 抑鬱癥, 抑郁症, 抑鬱, 抑郁, 消沉, 沮喪, 沮丧
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: דיכאון (dikaon)
 * Hungarian: levertség, depresszió


 * Icelandic:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 憂鬱, 窪み
 * Korean: 우울 (憂鬱)
 * Lithuanian:
 * Malay: tawar hati, kemurungan
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: depresiune, deprimare
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: dubhachas, airteil , trom-inntinn , sprochd
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: депресія


 * Afrikaans: laagdruk
 * Bulgarian: депресия
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Greek: βαθύ βαρομετρικό


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 低気圧 (teikiatsu)
 * Korean: 저기압 (jeogiap)
 * Romanian: depresiune
 * Swedish:


 * Afrikaans:
 * Arabic: كساد
 * Bulgarian: икономическа криза
 * Catalan: depressió
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 蕭條, 萧条
 * Czech:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:


 * Hebrew: שפל (shefel)
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: Kreppa
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 不振, 不況
 * Korean: 불경기
 * Romanian: depresiune
 * Russian: депрессия
 * Spanish:
 * Welsh: dirwasgiad


 * Italian:

Noun
depression



Noun

 * 1) Geographical or psychological depression.