Synonyms for depression
dɪˈprɛʃ ənde·pres·sion

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

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

Matched Categories

1. • Affective Disorder
   • Air Mass
   • Angular Position
   • Concave Shape
   • Crisis
   • Economic Condition
   • Geological Formation
   • Historic Period
   • Psychological State
   • Push
   • Sadness

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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

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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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1. Nadine Kaslow:

   There have been a number of things that people have talked about lately. One is just sort of increasing rates of psychological pain or psychological distress in young people -- more anxiety and more depression -- and I think that's for a number of reasons.

2. Melanie Willingham-Jaggers:

   These bathroom bans hurt students’ academic achievement – and the educators held accountable for students’ success. Discriminatory policies affect more than just grades: LGBTQ+ students who experience discrimination, like being prohibited from using the restroom, report higher levels of depression and lower self-esteem. Enforcing these bills would be prohibitively expensive and time-consuming for schools and extraordinarily invasive toward transgender students.

3. Actress Annie Read:

   Doing all the tests... the desire to push the limits and then what set them apart when all other motorcycle companies were closing during the Depression. How they were able to stay in the game and stay true to their values and what made them so special. there is the personal struggle, the struggle with the business…they did a good job balancing those two things.

4. Karen Horney:

   Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression.

5. Donald Trump:

   There'd be a major collapse of the race, and there'd be a major collapse of television ratings, it would become a depression in television.