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Synonyms for depression
dɪˈprɛʃ ənde·pres·sion

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  1. depression

    Synonyms:
    lowering, degradation, debasement, dejection, discouragement, hollow, valley, dip

    Antonyms:
    raising, elevation, exaltation, promotion, preferment, amelioration, encouragement, rallying, rising, eminence, mound, prominence

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  1. depressionnoun

    a mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity

    Synonyms:
    depressive disorder, low, impression, economic crisis, imprint, slump, natural depression, clinical depression

    Antonyms:
    elation

  2. depression, slump, economic crisisnoun

    a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment

    Synonyms:
    depressive disorder, low, impression, economic crisis, slack, falling off, imprint, falloff, slump, natural depression, drop-off, clinical depression

    Antonyms:
    elation

  3. natural depression, depressionnoun

    a sunken or depressed geological formation

    Synonyms:
    depressive disorder, low, impression, economic crisis, imprint, slump, natural depression, clinical depression

    Antonyms:
    elation

  4. depressionnoun

    sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy

    Synonyms:
    depressive disorder, low, impression, economic crisis, imprint, slump, natural depression, clinical depression

    Antonyms:
    elation

  5. Depression, Great Depressionnoun

    a period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic depression and mass unemployment

    Synonyms:
    depressive disorder, low, impression, economic crisis, imprint, slump, natural depression, clinical depression

    Antonyms:
    elation

  6. low, depressionnoun

    an air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation

    "a low moved in over night bringing sleet and snow"

    Synonyms:
    first gear, low, impression, economic crisis, low gear, depressive disorder, imprint, slump, first, natural depression, clinical depression

    Antonyms:
    elation

  7. depressive disorder, clinical depression, depressionnoun

    a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention

    Synonyms:
    depressive disorder, low, impression, economic crisis, imprint, slump, natural depression, clinical depression

    Antonyms:
    elation

  8. depression, impression, imprintnoun

    a concavity in a surface produced by pressing

    "he left the impression of his fingers in the soft mud"

    Synonyms:
    impression, economic crisis, mental picture, imprint, feeling, natural depression, effect, opinion, clinical depression, low, embossment, printing, notion, stamp, depressive disorder, slump, picture, belief

    Antonyms:
    elation

  9. depressionnoun

    angular distance below the horizon (especially of a celestial object)

    Synonyms:
    depressive disorder, low, impression, economic crisis, imprint, slump, natural depression, clinical depression

    Antonyms:
    elation

  10. depressionnoun

    pushing down

    "depression of the space bar on the typewriter"

    Synonyms:
    depressive disorder, low, impression, economic crisis, imprint, slump, natural depression, clinical depression

    Antonyms:
    elation

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  1. miserable

    Submitted by anonymous on December 22, 2020  

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  1. depressionnoun

    Synonyms:
    abasement, degradation, deterioration, debasement, perversion, vitiation, depravation

  2. depressionnoun

    Synonyms:
    hollow, hollowness, cavity, indentation, dent, dint, dimple, excavation, pit

  3. depressionnoun

    Synonyms:
    dejection, dejectedness, sadness, despondency, melancholy, dumps, blues, lowness of spirits, low spirits, depression of spirits

  4. depressionnoun

    Synonyms:
    lowness, dulness, inactivity

  5. depressionnoun

    Synonyms:
    (Surg.) couching

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. depressionnoun

    Synonyms:
    cavity, hollow, indentation, concavity, dent, dejection, discouragement, despondency, vapors, gloom, inactivity, dullness

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  1. List of paraphrases for "depression":

    depressive, vacuum, slump, recession, depressed, downturn, 1929, trough, crisis, frustration

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How to use depression in a sentence?

  1. Lucien Gonzalez:

    It doesn't prove that using cannabis causes depression or self-harm, but also doesn't definitively refute it, complicated associations appear to be found, and we just don't fully understand them yet.

  2. Rachel Scheinfield:

    The research shows there is a higher likelihood that someone with ADHD could also have another condition, such as a learning disability, sleep disorder, anxiety or depression. So all these other factors must also be factored out.

  3. Henry M. Wriston:

    Among all the tragic consequences of depression and war, this suppression of personal self-expression through one's life work is among the most poignant.

  4. Joseph Heller:

    Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure.

  5. Anna Lembke:

    With repeated exposure over time, we essentially enter a chronic dopamine deficit state, which is akin to clinical depression.


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