depression
Meaning of depression
noun
- feelings of severe despondency and dejection.
self-doubt creeps in and that swiftly turns to depression
- a long and severe recession in an economy or market.
the depression in the housing market
- 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.
late Middle English: from Latin depressio(n- ), from deprimere ‘press down’ (see depress).
Information about depression
- It is a name.
- The plural form of depression is: depressions.
- Languages in which depression is used:
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Hyphenation of depression
de-pres-sion
- It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
- depression is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
depression synonyms
Meaning slump:
Meaning Depression:
Meaning low:
Meaning impression:
Meaning a feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause:
Meaning a state or feeling of great physical or mental distress or discomfort:
Meaning the condition or quality of being sad:
Meaning the feeling of not being happy; sadness:
Meaning a feeling of deep distress caused by loss, disappointment, or other misfortune suffered by oneself or others:
Meaning great sorrow or distress (often used hyperbolically):
Meaning a state of depression or despondency:
Meaning a sad and depressed state; low spirits:
Meaning low spirits from loss of hope or courage; dejection:
Meaning a loss of confidence or enthusiasm; dispiritedness:
Meaning the complete loss or absence of hope:
Meaning great unhappiness or loneliness:
Meaning a tendency to see the worst aspect of things or believe that the worst will happen:
Meaning a feeling or state of despair; lack of hope:
Meaning an unexpected result or situation:
Meaning persistent mild depression:
Meaning a feeling of deep sadness; melancholy:
Meaning the action of committing a minor or petty offence such as loitering:
Meaning a period of temporary economic decline during which trade and industrial activity are reduced, generally identified by a fall in GDP in two successive quarters:
Meaning a gradual and continuous loss of strength, numbers, quality, or value:
Meaning a decline in economic, business, or other activity:
Meaning an act of slowing down:
Meaning a situation or condition in which there is no movement or activity at all:
Meaning the loss of the ability to move (and sometimes to feel anything) in part or most of the body, typically as a result of illness, poison, or injury:
Meaning the state of being inactive; idleness:
Meaning the state of not flowing or moving:
Meaning persistent high inflation combined with high unemployment and stagnant demand in a country's economy:
depression antonyms
Meaning the quality or state of being noticeably happy and optimistic:
Meaning a loud, deep, resonant sound:
Translation of depression
- French: dépression
- Italian: depressione
- Spanish: depresión, crisis
- Portuguese: depressão
- German: Vertiefung, Tief, Depression
Words that rhyme with depression
Sion, sion, Iasion, Salabrasion, abrasion, antiabrasion, basion, catabasion, chemabrasion, corrasion, dermabrasion, diplasion, dissuasion, erasion, evasion, iconostasion, invasion, microinvasion, mispersuasion, nasion, nonevasion, occasion, opticonasion, overpersuasion, persuasion, pervasion, preevasion, preinvasion, prepersuasion, rasion, reevasion, reinvasion, reoccasion, repersuasion, suasion, subnasion, unpersuasion, adhesion, autolesion, cohesion, decohesion, dyshesion, exesion, hemilesion, inadhesion, incohesion, inhesion, intercohesion, lesion, mesion
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