| depression | | |
| n. (state) | 1. depression | a mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity. |
| ~ mental condition, mental state, psychological condition, psychological state | (psychology) a mental condition in which the qualities of a state are relatively constant even though the state itself may be dynamic.; "a manic state" |
| ~ melancholia | extreme depression characterized by tearful sadness and irrational fears. |
| ~ blue devils, megrims, vapors, vapours, blues | a state of depression.; "he had a bad case of the blues" |
| ~ blue funk, funk | a state of nervous depression.; "he was in a funk" |
| ~ melancholy | a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed. |
| ~ slough of despond | (formal) extreme depression. |
| ~ low spirits | a state of mild depression. |
| ~ dejection | a state of melancholy depression. |
| n. (state) | 2. depression, economic crisis, slump | a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment. |
| ~ crisis | an unstable situation of extreme danger or difficulty.; "they went bankrupt during the economic crisis" |
| ~ economic condition | the condition of the economy. |
| ~ great depression | the economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash in 1929 and continuing through the 1930s. |
| n. (object) | 3. depression, natural depression | a sunken or depressed geological formation. |
| ~ basin | a natural depression in the surface of the land often with a lake at the bottom of it.; "the basin of the Great Salt Lake" |
| ~ bed, bottom | a depression forming the ground under a body of water.; "he searched for treasure on the ocean bed" |
| ~ crater | a bowl-shaped depression formed by the impact of a meteorite or bomb. |
| ~ geological formation, formation | (geology) the geological features of the earth. |
| ~ hollow, hole | a depression hollowed out of solid matter. |
| ~ lowland | low level country. |
| ~ sinkhole, swallow hole, sink | a depression in the ground communicating with a subterranean passage (especially in limestone) and formed by solution or by collapse of a cavern roof. |
| ~ oceanic abyss, deep, trench | a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor. |
| ~ trough | a narrow depression (as in the earth or between ocean waves or in the ocean bed). |
| ~ vale, valley | a long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river. |
| n. (feeling) | 4. depression | sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy. |
| ~ sadness, unhappiness | emotions experienced when not in a state of well-being. |
| ~ demoralisation, demoralization | depression resulting from an undermining of your morale. |
| ~ helplessness | a feeling of being unable to manage. |
| ~ despondence, despondency, disconsolateness, heartsickness | feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless. |
| ~ oppressiveness, oppression | a feeling of being oppressed. |
| ~ dysphoria | abnormal depression and discontent. |
| n. (time) | 5. depression, great depression | a period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic depression and mass unemployment. |
| ~ historic period, age | an era of history having some distinctive feature.; "we live in a litigious age" |
| n. (state) | 6. depression, low | an air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation.; "a low moved in over night bringing sleet and snow" |
| ~ air mass | a large body of air with uniform characteristics horizontally. |
| ~ cyclone | (meteorology) rapid inward circulation of air masses about a low pressure center; circling counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southern. |
| n. (state) | 7. clinical depression, depression, depressive disorder | a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention. |
| ~ affective disorder, emotional disorder, emotional disturbance, major affective disorder | any mental disorder not caused by detectable organic abnormalities of the brain and in which a major disturbance of emotions is predominant. |
| ~ agitated depression | a state of clinical depression in which the person exhibits irritability and restlessness. |
| ~ anaclitic depression | severe and progressive depression in infants who lose their mother and do not get a suitable substitute. |
| ~ dysthymia, dysthymic depression | mild chronic depression.; "I thought she had just been in a bad mood for thirty years, but the doctor called it dysthymia" |
| ~ endogenous depression | a state of depression for which there is no apparent precipitating cause. |
| ~ exogenous depression, reactive depression | an inappropriate state of depression that is precipitated by events in the person's life (to be distinguished from normal grief). |
| ~ major depressive episode | (psychiatry) a state of depression with all the classic symptoms (anhedonia and lethargy and sleep disturbance and despondency and morbid thoughts and feelings of worthlessness and sometimes attempted suicide) but with no known organic dysfunction. |
| ~ neurotic depression | a term used for any state of depression that is not psychotic. |
| ~ psychotic depression | a state of depression so severe that the person loses contact with reality and suffers a variety of functional impairments. |
| ~ retarded depression | a state of clinical depression in which the individual is lethargic and slow to initiate action. |
| n. (shape) | 8. depression, impression, imprint | a concavity in a surface produced by pressing.; "he left the impression of his fingers in the soft mud" |
| ~ dimple | a small natural hollow in the cheek or chin.; "His dimple appeared whenever he smiled" |
| ~ concave shape, concavity, incurvation, incurvature | a shape that curves or bends inward. |
| ~ groove, channel | a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record). |
| ~ dimple | any slight depression in a surface.; "there are approximately 336 dimples on a golf ball" |
| ~ dip | a depression in an otherwise level surface.; "there was a dip in the road" |
| ~ incision, dent, prick, scratch, slit | a depression scratched or carved into a surface. |
| ~ droop, sag | a shape that sags.; "there was a sag in the chair seat" |
| ~ crinkle, wrinkle, crease, furrow, seam, line | a slight depression in the smoothness of a surface.; "his face has many lines"; "ironing gets rid of most wrinkles" |
| ~ cranny, crevice, fissure, chap, crack | a long narrow depression in a surface. |
| n. (linkdef) | 9. depression | angular distance below the horizon (especially of a celestial object). |
| ~ angular position | relation by which any position with respect to any other position is established. |
| n. (act) | 10. depression | pushing down.; "depression of the space bar on the typewriter" |
| ~ push, pushing | the act of applying force in order to move something away.; "he gave the door a hard push"; "the pushing is good exercise" |
| ~ mouse click, click | depression of a button on a computer mouse.; "a click on the right button for example" |
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