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depression

English

  1. 🔊 pushing down
    “depression of the space bar on the typewriter”
  2. 🔊 sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy
  3. 🔊 angular distance below the horizon (especially of a celestial object)
  4. 🔊 a concavity in a surface produced by pressing
    “he left the impression of his fingers in the soft mud”
  5. 🔊 a mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity
  6. 🔊 a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment
  7. 🔊 a period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic depression and mass unemployment
  8. 🔊 a sunken or depressed geological formation
  9. 🔊 an air mass of lower pressure
    “a low moved in over night bringing sleet and snow”
  10. 🔊 a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention

Spanish

  1. 🔊 depre depression
  2. 🔊 depresión depression
  3. 🔊 postración depression
  4. 🔊 pálida depression

Similar words

natural depression impression imprint depressive disorder clinical depression slump economic crisis low great depression schmerz slough of despond abatement abridgment abstraction abulia aching heart agony agony of mind alienation alleviation alveolation alveolus anguish antrum