depression

/dɪpɹˈɛʃən/ · 3 syllables

Meaning

noun

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

Synonyms for depression

• slump
• economic crisis
• natural depression
• Great Depression
• low
• depressive disorder
• clinical depression
• impression
• imprint

Antonyms of depression

• elation

Words that rhyme with depression

• expression
• impression
• accession
• possession
• aggression
• confession
• discretion
• recession
• succession
• compression
• profession
• regression
• session
• suppression
• concession
• digression
• freshen
• oppression
• procession
• progression
• repression
• secession
• transgression
• decompression
• indiscretion
• intercession
• obsession
• precession
• hessian
• nonaggression