Depression

/di'preʃn/
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Definition
  1. Noun:
    • A state of low mood and aversion to activity: A mental state characterized by persistent sadness, hopelessness, and a lack of interest or pleasure in activities.
    • A period of severe economic decline: A long-term economic state marked by high unemployment, low prices, and reduced trade and investment.
    • A sunken or hollowed area: A concavity or indentation in a surface or landform.
    • The act of pressing down: The action of pushing something down.
    • A lowering of atmospheric pressure: An area where the atmospheric pressure is lower than the surrounding area, often associated with cloudy, rainy, or snowy weather.
Examples of Usage
  • Noun (Mental State):
    • She sought therapy for her clinical depression.
    • A feeling of depression overwhelmed him after the loss.
  • Noun (Economic State):
    • The Great Depression of the 1930s was a global crisis.
    • The country feared sliding into another economic depression.
  • Noun (Physical Hollow):
    • Water collected in the depression in the road.
    • The fossil was found in a small depression in the rock.
  • Noun (Act of Pressing):
    • A quick depression of the lever starts the machine.
  • Noun (Weather):
    • The weather forecast predicts a deep depression moving in from the west.
Advanced Usage
  • "in a depression": Experiencing a state of severe economic downturn or low mood.
    • The entire region was in a depression for nearly a decade.
    • He has been in a depression since the accident.
  • "sink into depression": To gradually enter a state of deep sadness or economic decline.
    • Without support, she began to sink into depression.
    • The market seemed to sink into a depression.
Variants and Related Words
  • Depress (verb): To make someone feel sad or to push something down.
    • The news depressed the entire team.
    • Depress the clutch pedal to change gears.
  • Depressive (adjective/noun): Relating to or suffering from depression.
    • He experienced a depressive episode.
  • Depressed (adjective): Feeling very unhappy, or describing an area that is lower than its surroundings.
    • She felt depressed and lonely.
    • The depressed region of the land formed a valley.
Synonyms
  • Despondency: A state of low spirits caused by loss of hope or courage.
  • Recession: A period of temporary economic decline.
  • Hollow: A hole or dip in a surface.
  • Melancholy: A feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause.
Related Phrases
  • Clinical depression: A severe form of depression that requires medical diagnosis and treatment.
    • He was diagnosed with clinical depression.
  • Manic depression: An older term for bipolar disorder, characterized by alternating periods of depression and mania.
    • The artist's manic depression influenced his work.
Related Idioms
  • The winter blues: A colloquial term for feeling sad or depressed during the winter months, often related to seasonal affective disorder (SAD).
    • I always get the winter blues when the days get shorter.
Noun
  1. pushing down
    • depression of the space bar on the typewriter
  2. angular distance below the horizon (especially of a celestial object)
  3. a concavity in a surface produced by pressing
    • he left the impression of his fingers in the soft mud
  4. a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention
  5. an air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation
    • a low moved in over night bringing sleet and snow
  6. a period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic depression and mass unemployment
  7. sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy
  8. a sunken or depressed geological formation
  9. a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment
  10. a mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity

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