Antonyms for Depression
dɪˈprɛʃ ənde·pres·sion

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1. depression

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

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

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

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:3.3 / 3 votes

1. depressionnoun

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

   Antonyms:
   elation

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

2. depression, slump, economic crisisnoun

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

   Antonyms:
   elation

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

3. natural depression, depressionnoun

   a sunken or depressed geological formation

   Antonyms:
   elation

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

4. depressionnoun

   sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy

   Antonyms:
   elation

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

5. Depression, Great Depressionnoun

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

   Antonyms:
   elation

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

6. low, depressionnoun

   an air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation

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

   Antonyms:
   elation

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

7. depressive disorder, clinical depression, depressionnoun

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

   Antonyms:
   elation

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

8. depression, impression, imprintnoun

   a concavity in a surface produced by pressing

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

   Antonyms:
   elation

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

9. depressionnoun

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

   Antonyms:
   elation

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

10. depressionnoun

    pushing down

    "depression of the space bar on the typewriter"

    Antonyms:
    elation

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

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1. depressionnoun

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

How to use Depression in a sentence?

1. Darnita Samuels:

   What they’re saying is ‘I’m stressed out, my anxiety is going up’ things like that. So when we start asking questions, there is burnout. But then there also is some slight depression as well.

2. Michael Irwin:

   That's why this study is so important, we have shown that we can actually target insomnia with cognitive behavior therapy and prevent depression from occurring.

3. Jonathan Javitt:

   Despite extensive evidence that 25 to 50 percent of those with bipolar depression attempt suicide and far too many succeed, there is currently no FDA-approved treatment for active suicidality in bipolar depression.

4. Bernard Biermann:

   Adolescence is a time of tremendous stress and it seems like today’s teens have unusually high, often unreasonable, expectations for themselves, as a result, depression, anxiety and other mental health concerns are increasingly common as are maladaptive behaviors such as substance abuse, self-injury, eating disorders and other forms of unhealthy coping.

5. Troy Gayeski:

   Another Great Depression scenario is hard to see.

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