<b><font size="4">"depression"</font></b><br/><b>noun</b> <ol> <li>a mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity [ant: <a href="/">elation</a>] </li> <li>a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment [syn: <a href="../slump.html">slump</a>, <a href="/">economic crisis</a>] </li> <li>a sunken or depressed geological formation [syn: <a href="/">natural depression</a>] [ant: <a href="/">natural elevation</a>] </li> <li>sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy </li> <li>a time period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic depression and mass unemployment [syn: <a href="/">the Depression</a>, <a href="/">the Great Depression</a>] </li> <li>an air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation; "a low moved in over night bringing sleet and snow" [syn: <a href="../low.html">low</a>, <a href="../low.html pressure">low pressure</a>] </li> <li>a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention [syn: <a href="/">depressive disorder</a>, <a href="/">clinical depression</a>] </li> <li>a concavity in a surface produced by pressing; "he left the impression of his fingers in the soft mud" [syn: <a href="/">impression</a>, <a href="/">imprint</a>] </li> <li>angular distance below the horizon (especially of a celestial object) </li> <li>pushing down; "depression of the space bar on the typewriter"</li> </ol> Source: <a href="../depression.html">http://www.word.sc/depression</a>

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