Helping to share the web since 1996
Use the search bar above to find dictionary definitions - click home to search Link Centre for websites.
Dictionary definition for: Depression
1. (n) a mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity
2. (n) a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment
3. (n) a sunken or depressed geological formation
4. (n) sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy
5. (n) a time period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic depression and mass unemployment
6. (n) an air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation; "a low moved in over night bringing sleet and snow"
7. (n) a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention
8. (n) a concavity in a surface produced by pressing; "he left the impression of his fingers in the soft mud"
9. (n) angular distance below the horizon (especially of a celestial object)
10. (n) pushing down; "depression of the space bar on the typewriter"
WordNet 2.1 Copyright Princeton University. All rights reserved.
