Depression Synonyms and Antonyms

dĭ-prĕshən
Something lower than its surroundings
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. dip
  2. sink
  3. cavity
  4. basin
  5. concavity
  6. hollow
  7. pit
  8. sag
  9. sinkhole
Low spirits
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. gloom
  2. dejection
  3. despondency
  4. doldrums
  5. dumps
  6. sadness
  7. despair
  8. downheartedness
  9. discouragement
  10. dolefulness
  11. melancholy
  12. blues
  13. unhappiness
  14. dullness
  15. hopelessness
  16. glumness
  17. melancholia
  18. malaise
  19. vapors
  20. sorrow
  21. misery
  22. wretchedness
  23. trouble
  24. mortification
  25. worry
  26. despondence
  27. dispiritedness
  28. pessimism
  29. distress
  30. desperation
  31. desolation
  32. dreariness
  33. heaviness of spirit
  34. basin
  35. disconsolation
  36. blowout
  37. woefulness
  38. cavity
  39. lugubriousness
  40. concavity
  41. moroseness
  42. cheerlessness
  43. crater
  44. disconsolateness
  45. dolor
  46. dent
  47. darkness
  48. dysphoria
  49. bleakness
  50. oppression
  51. dimple
  52. low-spiritedness
  53. funk
  54. low
  55. lowness
  56. dip
  57. gloominess
  58. disheartenment
  59. dismay
  60. hypochondria
  61. downturn
  62. clinical depression
  63. dysthymia
  64. slough-of-despond
  65. heavy-heartedness
  66. Weltschmerz (German)
  67. ennui
  68. fall
  69. mulligrubs
  70. blue-devils
  71. mope
  72. horrors
  73. blue-funk
  74. hole
  75. blahs
  76. hollow
  77. mournfulness
  78. impression
  79. inactivity
  80. indentation
  81. couchancy
  82. squatness
  83. pit
  84. pocket
  85. ravine
  86. recession
  87. slump
  88. vale
  89. valley
  90. squattiness
  91. stumpiness
  92. subjacency
Antonyms:
  1. elation
  2. joy
  3. happiness
  4. satisfaction
  5. prosperity
  6. cheerfulness
  7. good-times
  8. encouragement
  9. boom
  10. hope
  11. hopefulness
  12. natural elevation
Period of commercial stress
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. slump
  2. recession
  3. economic decline
  4. economic downturn
  5. unemployment
  6. slack times
  7. hard times
  8. bad times
  9. inflation
  10. crisis
  11. overproduction
  12. retrenchment
  13. slowdown
  14. economic dislocation
  15. economic paralysis
  16. great depression
  17. economic stagnation
  18. financial storm
  19. business inactivity
  20. panic
  21. crash
  22. bust
  23. black-friday
  24. stagflation
  25. economic-crisis
Antonyms:
  1. prosperity
  2. surge
  3. good-times
  4. boom
  5. recovery
Concavity, cavity
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. impression
  2. imprint
Antonyms:
  1. convexity
  2. bulge
  3. protuberance
A state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. depressive-disorder
  2. clinical depression
A sunken or depressed geological formation
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. natural depression

Words Related to Depression

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Depression Sentence Examples

  • She hadn't recognized it as depression then, though.

  • Physical ills were miserable, but this depression was unbearable.

  • It is in the south that the depression remains most distinct and it is there known as the Campidano.

  • Since the ball he had felt the approach of a fit of nervous depression and had made desperate efforts to combat it.

  • Again Pierre was overtaken by the depression he so dreaded.

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