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English noun: depression | |||
| 1. | depression (state) a mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | mental condition, mental state, psychological condition, psychological state | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | blue devils, blue funk, blues, dejection, funk, low spirits, megrims, melancholia, melancholy, slough of despond, vapors, vapours | ||
| Antonyms | elation | ||
| 2. | depression (state) a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment | ||
| Synonyms | economic crisis, slump | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | crisis, economic condition | ||
| Instance hyponym | Great Depression | ||
| 3. | depression (object) a sunken or depressed geological formation | ||
| Synonyms | natural depression | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | formation, geological formation | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | basin, bed, bottom, crater, deep, hole, hollow, lowland, oceanic abyss, sink, sinkhole, swallow hole, trench, trough, vale, valley | ||
| Antonyms | natural elevation, elevation | ||
| 4. | depression (feeling) sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | sadness, unhappiness | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | demoralisation, demoralization, despondence, despondency, disconsolateness, dysphoria, heartsickness, helplessness, oppression, oppressiveness | ||
| 5. | Depression (time) a period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic depression and mass unemployment | ||
| Synonyms | Great Depression | ||
| Instance hypernym | age, historic period | ||
| 6. | depression (state) an air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation | ||
| Samples | A low moved in over night bringing sleet and snow. | ||
| Synonyms | low | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | air mass | ||
| Part meronym | cyclone | ||
| 7. | depression (state) a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention | ||
| Synonyms | clinical depression, depressive disorder | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | affective disorder, emotional disorder, emotional disturbance, major affective disorder | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | agitated depression, anaclitic depression, dysthymia, dysthymic depression, endogenous depression, exogenous depression, major depressive episode, neurotic depression, psychotic depression, reactive depression, retarded depression | ||
| 8. | depression (shape) a concavity in a surface produced by pressing | ||
| Samples | He left the impression of his fingers in the soft mud. | ||
| Synonyms | impression, imprint | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | concave shape, concavity, incurvation, incurvature | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | channel, chap, crack, cranny, crease, crevice, crinkle, dent, dimple, dimple, dip, droop, fissure, furrow, groove, incision, line, prick, sag, scratch, seam, slit, wrinkle | ||
| 9. | depression angular distance below the horizon (especially of a celestial object) | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | angular position | ||
| 10. | depression (act) pushing down | ||
| Samples | Depression of the space bar on the typewriter. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | push, pushing | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | click, mouse click | ||
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