Depression synonyms
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A person or thing causing despair
Low spirits
A dip stick.
Despondency is defined as a state of feeling hopeless or dejected.
Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness.
A condition of great wretchedness or suffering because of pain, sorrow, poverty, etc.; distress
Effort, especially when inconvenient or bothersome:
Condition of continuing economic inflation together with a decline in business activity and an increase in unemployment
The definition of a cavity is a hole or hollow place.
An instance or cause of such a feeling.
The fact, state, or feeling of being discouraged
The state or condition of being dispirited.
Bodily dysfunction or discomfort caused by disease or injury:
Recklessness arising from despair.
Loneliness
heaviness of spirit
Low spirits
disconsolation
The state of being disconsolate; gloom.
woefulness
The quality of being woeful
lugubriousness
The property of being lugubrious.
cheerlessness
The state or characteristic of being cheerless
(Uncountable) The state of being disconsolate; gloom.
(R.C.Ch.) One of the seven traditional sorrows in the life of the Virgin Mary
A feeling of being weighed down in mind or body:
disheartenment
The state of being disheartened; dejection.
A psychiatric disorder characterized by the conviction that one is ill or soon to become ill, often accompanied by physical symptoms, when illness is neither present nor likely. &diamf3; A person with hypochondria is called a hypochondriac.
A feeling of general bodily discomfort, fatigue or unpleasantness, often at the onset of illness.
Low spirits
A mood disorder characterized by depressive symptoms that persist for two or more years, sometimes subsiding for short periods of time.
slough-of-despond
A state of despondency.
Weltschmerz (German)
Low spirits
mulligrubs
(Slang) sullenness; sulky behaviour
A musical form, African-American in origin, generally featuring an eight-bar or twelve-bar structure and using the blues scale.
Nervous depression
blahs
Plural form of blah
economic decline
Period of commercial stress
(Econ.) A temporary falling off of business activity during a period when such activity has been generally increasing
economic downturn
Period of commercial stress
slack times
Period of commercial stress
hard times
Period of commercial stress
bad times
Period of commercial stress
Condition resulting from this, characterized by a general increase in price levels, specif. an excessive or persistent increase, leading to a decline in purchasing power
A time of, or a state of affairs involving, great danger or trouble, often one which threatens to result in unpleasant consequences
(Countable) (usually in plural) An instance or cause of unhappiness.
The feeling of not being happy
(Med.) Defecation
A state of prolonged misfortune, privation, or anguish.
The characteristic of being dreary.
(Uncountable) The state or quality of reflecting little light, of tending to a blackish or brownish color.
economic paralysis
Period of commercial stress
grief (related)
(--- Informal) Criticism or rude talk:
(Informal) Any large, roughly circular depression or hole.
The state of being downcast or despondent.
The state or condition of being gloomy.
The production of more of a commodity than can be used or sold
Retrenchment is defined as cutting back or a reduction.
A slowing down, as of production
economic dislocation
Period of commercial stress
economic stagnation
Period of commercial stress
financial storm
Period of commercial stress
A widespread fear of the collapse of the financial system, resulting in unreasoned attempts to turn property into cash, withdraw money, etc.
A sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures)
Bust is defined as a period of economic down time, a police raid in which arrests are made or something that doesn't go as planned and that is considered a failure.
black-friday
The anniversary of a number of catastrophic or unfortunate historical events originally occurring on a Friday.
elation (antonym)
A feeling of exultant joy or pride; high spirits
prosperity (antonym)
The condition of being prosperous.
good-times (antonym)
A period of prosperity or happiness
boom (antonym)
(Economics, business) A period of prosperity or high market activity.
dent (related)
A shallow deformation in the surface of an object, produced by an impact.
hole (related)
The definition of a hole is a hollow place, opening or break in something.
bankruptcy (related)
The system of adjudication that declares instances of bankruptcy:
A region drained by a single river system:
(Slang, sports) A sporting contest that is decidedly one-sided and whose outcome is no longer in doubt. Often occurs when one team is superior to the other.
The state of being curved like the inner surface of a sphere.
A slight depression or indentation in a surface.
A downward trend, as in business activity
A gripping listlessness or melancholia caused by boredom; depression .
A marked, often sudden, decline in status, rank, or importance:
The indentation or depression made by the pressure of one object on or into another.
The quality of being inactive; idleness; passiveness.
Depression of spirits; melancholy
The definition of a pit is a hole in the ground, or the hard stone in a fruit that contains the seed.
(Architecture) A hole or space covered by a movable piece of board, as in a floor, boxing, partitions, etc.
A long, deep hollow in the earth's surface, esp. one worn by the action of a stream; large gully or small gorge
Vale is a shortened form of the word valley.
An elongated lowland between ranges of mountains, hills, or other uplands, often having a river or stream running along the bottom.
bulge (antonym)
(Informal) A sudden increase in size, value, etc.
protuberance (antonym)
A part or thing that protrudes; projection; bulge; swelling
surge (antonym)
A sudden onrush or increase:
happiness (antonym)
The definition of happiness is the state of joy, peace and tranquility.
cheerfulness (antonym)
encouragement (antonym)
Something that encourages
hope (antonym)
(Uncountable) The belief or expectation that something wished for can or will happen.
hopefulness (antonym)
The property of being hopeful.
(Nautical) A drift to leeward.
A natural depression in a land surface communicating with a subterranean passage, generally occurring in limestone regions and formed by solution or by collapse of a cavern roof.
An emotional state characterized by anxiety, depression, or unease.
A feeling or spell of dismally low spirits
A dull, spiritless person.
The property of being mournful.
convex (related)
Curving outward, like the outer boundary of a circle or sphere.
happy (related)
A feeling or spell of dismally low spirits
rich (related)
A diminutive of the male given name Richard.
cyclone (related)
A Southeastern and Indian Ocean weather phenomenon that results in wind speeds of around 150 to 200 km/h.
natural depression
a sunken or depressed geological formation
A note on a book's title page or its reverse or at the end of the book, giving the publisher's or printer's name, time and place of publication, etc.
depressive-disorder
Either of mild depression (the blues; symptoms include sadness and fatigue) or major depressive disorder.
economic-crisis
A period of economic slowdown characterised by declining productivity and devaluing of financial institutions often due to reckless and unsustainable money lending.
(Scottish dialectal, archaic) A hill.
great depression
(Economics, business, finance) A major economic collapse that lasted from 1929 to 1940 in the US and a similar period in many other countries.
natural elevation (antonym)
a mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity
couchancy
The state of lying down for repose.
squatness
The state of being squat
squattiness
stumpiness
The quality of being stumpy.
subjacency
anxiety (related)
migraine (related)
psychosis (related)
insomnia (related)
schizophrenia (related)
mental illness (related)
symptom (related)
depressive (related)
chronic (related)
illness (related)
anorexia (related)
manic-depression (related)
pain (related)
fatigue (related)
treatment-resistant (related)
(Obs.) Black bile: in medieval times considered to be one of the four humors of the body, to come from the spleen or kidneys, and to cause gloominess, irritability, or depression
Something causing shame, humiliation, etc.
The doctrine or belief that the evil in the world outweighs the good.
The characteristic of being downhearted; sadness.
Gloominess; sullenness; deep sadness.
Delirium tremens or its hallucinations
The state of having no job; joblessness.
joy (antonym)
A feeling of extreme happiness or cheerfulness, especially related to the acquisition or expectation of something good.
business inactivity
Period of commercial stress
satisfaction (antonym)
A giving of something in order to release oneself from, or to satisfy, some outstanding obligation, be it legal or moral. Satisfaction requires the giving of one thing for another and should be distinguished from performance, which requires only the promising to give something. Also, payment in full, done to fulfill a contractual obligation or debt.
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