- depression - a mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity
--1 is a kind of psychological state, mental state
Antonyms: elation
--1 has particulars:melancholia; blues, blue devils, megrims, vapors, vapours; funk, blue funk; melancholy; slough of despond; low spirits; dejection - depression, slump, economic crisis - a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment
--2 is a kind of financial condition, economic condition
--2 has particulars: Great Depression - natural depression, depression - a sunken or depressed geological formation
--3 is a kind of geological formation, formation
--3 has particulars:basin; bed, bottom; crater; hole, hollow; lowland; sinkhole, sink, swallow hole; trench, deep, oceanic abyss; trough; valley, vale - depression - sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy
--4 is a kind of sadness, unhappiness
--4 has particulars:demoralization, demoralisation; helplessness; despondency, despondence, heartsickness, disconsolateness; oppression, oppressiveness; dysphoria - Depression, the Depression, the Great Depression - a time period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic depression and mass unemployment
--5 is a kind of time period, period of time, period
- low, low pressure, depression - an air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation; "a low moved in over night bringing sleet and snow"
--6 is a kind of air mass
--6 is a part of cyclone- depressive disorder, clinical depression, depression - a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention
--7 is a kind of affective disorder, major affective disorder, emotional disorder, emotional disturbance
--7 has particulars:- depression, impression, imprint - a concavity in a surface produced by pressing; "he left the impression of his fingers in the soft mud"
--8 is a kind of concave shape, concavity, incurvation, incurvature
--8 has particulars:dimple; groove, channel; dimple; dip; incision, scratch, prick, slit, dent; sag, droop; wrinkle, furrow, crease, crinkle, seam, line; crevice, cranny, crack, fissure, chap - depression - angular distance below the horizon (especially of a celestial object)
--9 is a kind of angular position
- depression - pushing down; "depression of the space bar on the typewriter"
--10 is a kind of push, pushing
--10 has particulars: click, mouse clickDerived form: verb depress4 - Depression, the Depression, the Great Depression - a time period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic depression and mass unemployment