Depression Meaning and Definition


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Depression meaning

Word: Depression

How to pronounce: dɪˈpreʃn

Noun

Definitions:

1. Feelings of severe despondency and dejection.

Example sentences: "Self-doubt creeps in and that swiftly turns to depression"

2. A long and severe recession in an economy or market.

Example sentences: "The depression in the housing market"

3. The action of lowering something or pressing something down.

Example sentences: "Depression of the plunger delivers two units of insulin"

4. A region of lower atmospheric pressure, especially a cyclonic weather system.

Example sentences: "Hurricanes start off as loose regions of bad weather known as tropical depressions"

5. The angular distance of an object below the horizon or a horizontal plane.

Example sentences: "Angular depressions at the base of siltstone laminae represent casts of halite that was dissolved by lower-salinity waters that introduced silt."


Synonyms:

pressure drawdown

clinical depression

despondency

longing

gloom

dejection

unhappiness

melancholy

oppression

discouragement

low spirits

desolation

dreariness

blues

despondence

doldrums

recession

stagnation

decline

slump

crisis

loss

abatement

falloff

cavity

low spot

hollow

concavity

pit

great depression

recess

indentation

dent

dint

impression

low

drop

fall

reduction

diminishment

diminution

negative pressure


Derivations:

depressive

depressed

depressing

depress

depressor


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Depression in Other Languages...

Spanish:

German: Depression

French: Dépression

Italian: Depressione

Turkish: Depresyon


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