Search Result:depression
KK Pronunciation
〔 dIˋprєʃәn 〕
Pronunciation
〔 diˊpreʃn 〕
Overview of noun depression
The noun depression has 10 senses
- depression -- (a mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity)
- depression, slump, economic crisis -- (a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment)
- natural depression, depression -- (a sunken or depressed geological formation)
- depression -- (sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy)
- Depression, Great Depression -- (a period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic depression and mass unemployment)
- low, depression -- (an air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation; "a low moved in over night bringing sleet and snow")
- depressive disorder, clinical depression, depression -- (a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention)
- depression, impression, imprint -- (a concavity in a surface produced by pressing; "he left the impression of his fingers in the soft mud")
- depression -- (angular distance below the horizon (especially of a celestial object))
- depression -- (pushing down; "depression of the space bar on the typewriter")