depression
noun
[ dɪˈprɛʃ(ə)n ]
• feelings of severe despondency and dejection.
• "self-doubt creeps in and that swiftly turns to depression"
Similar:
melancholy,
misery,
sadness,
unhappiness,
sorrow,
woe,
gloom,
gloominess,
dejection,
downheartedness,
despondency,
dispiritedness,
low spirits,
heavy-heartedness,
moroseness,
discouragement,
despair,
desolation,
dolefulness,
moodiness,
pessimism,
hopelessness,
the slough of despond,
upset,
tearfulness,
the dumps,
the doldrums,
the blues,
one's black dog,
a low,
the blahs,
a funk,
a blue funk,
the mopes,
clinical depression,
endogenous depression,
reactive depression,
postnatal depression,
dysthymia,
melancholia,
dolour,
the megrims,
mopery,
disconsolateness,
disconsolation,
• a long and severe recession in an economy or market.
• "the depression in the housing market"
Similar:
recession,
slump,
decline,
downturn,
slowdown,
standstill,
paralysis,
inactivity,
stagnation,
credit crunch,
credit squeeze,
hard times,
bad times,
stagflation,
• the action of lowering something or pressing something down.
• "depression of the plunger delivers two units of insulin"
• a region of lower atmospheric pressure, especially a cyclonic weather system.
• "hurricanes start off as loose regions of bad weather known as tropical depressions"
• the angular distance of an object below the horizon or a horizontal plane.
Origin:
late Middle English: from Latin depressio(n- ), from deprimere ‘press down’ (see depress).
