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Definitions: Depression |
DepressionNoun1. A mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity. 2. A long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment. 3. A sunken or depressed geological formation. 4. Sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy. 5. A time period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic depression and mass unemployment. 6. An air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation; "a low moved in over night bringing sleet and snow". 7. A state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention. 8. A concavity in a surface produced by pressing; "he left the impression of his fingers in the soft mud". 9. Angular distance below the horizon (especially of a celestial object). 10. : pushing down; "depression of the space bar on the typewriter". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "depression" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1386. (references) |
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Building & Civil Engineering | The depth below supply level of some point of a semi-module, fixed by its hydraulics, such that, as the supply level varies, a constant coefficient multiplied by the correct power of that depth gives the discharge from the semi-module. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A pot-shaped hole in the surface of a pavement. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| A depressed area having no surface outlet. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Economics | A rapid fall in the economy ; is marked by large-scale unemployment and low productivity, and hence low incomes and prices. Source: European Union. (references) |
Geography | Area of low pressure generally surrounded by closed isobars, usually associated with storm and rain; winds blow around the depression counterclockwise in northern hemisphere and clockwise in southern hemisphere. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | A small hollow resulting from contraction of those parts of the glass that were hottest when the article was removed from the mould. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mechanical Engineering | Sudden lowering of the pressure in the cabin. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. Any relatively sunken part of the Earth's surface; esp. a low-lying area surrounded by higher ground and having no natural outlet for surface drainage, as an interior basin or a karstic sinkhole b. A structurally low area in the crust, produced by negative movementsthat sink or downthrust the rocks. CF:basin; uplift. (references) |
Public Administration | The -- of the feed key a second time will cause another card to be fed while the first card is being registered at the punching station. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: DepressionSynonyms: clinical depression (n), depressive disorder (n), economic crisis (n), impression (n), imprint (n), low (n), low pressure (n), natural depression (n), slump (n), the Depression (n), the Great Depression (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: hollowing (industry, metallurgy). |
| Antonyms: elation (n), natural elevation (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Concavity | Noun: concavity, depression, dip; hollow, hollowness; indentation, intaglio, cavity, dent, dint, dimple, follicle, pit, sinus, alveolus, lacuna; excavation, strip mine; trough; (furrow); honeycomb. |
Dejection | Noun: dejection; dejectedness; Adjective: depression, prosternation; lowness of spirits, depression of spirits; weight on the spirits, oppression on the spirits, damp on the spirits; low spirits, bad spirits, drooping spirits, depressed spirits; heart sinking; heaviness of heart, failure of heart. |
Depression | Noun: lowering; Verb: depression; dip; (concavity); abasement; detrusion; reduction. |
Depth | Noun: depth; deepness; Adjective: profundity, depression; (concavity). |
Hopelessness | Noun: hopelessness; Adjective: despair, desperation; despondency, depression; (dejection); pessimism, pessimist; Job's comforter; bird of bad omen, bird of ill omen. |
Insanity | Fanaticism, infatuation, craze; oddity, eccentricity, twist, monomania (caprice); kleptodipsomania; hypochondriasis; (low spirits); melancholia, depression, clinical depression, severe depression; hysteria; amentia. |
Lowness | Noun: lowness; Adjective: debasement, depression, prostration; (horizontal); depression; (concave). |
Notch | Embrasure, battlement, machicolation; saw, tooth, crenelle, scallop, scollop, vandyke; depression; jag. |
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Crosswords: Depression |
| English words defined with "depression": agitated depression, anaclitic depression ♦ clinical depression ♦ dysthymic depression ♦ endogenous depression, exogenous depression ♦ manic depression ♦ neurotic depression ♦ psychotic depression ♦ reactive depression, retarded depression ♦ the Depression, the Great Depression. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "depression": Cone of Depression ♦ depression angle, Depression, Involutional ♦ initial depression ♦ lee depression ♦ orographic depression ♦ shallow depression ♦ theoretical fan depression. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "depression": Appallment ♦ Dispiritment. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Depression" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Danish (depression), German (depression), Swedish (depression, slump). |
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Screenplays | I got tired of seein' children roamin' the woodlands without food, children roamin' the highways in this here Depression, children sleepin' in old abandoned car bodies in junk heaps. (The Night of the Hunter; writing credit: James Agee; Davis Grubb) You're a disgrace to depression. (As Good As It Gets; writing credit: Mark Andrus) I don't know what to do about the depression, the inflation, the Russians, or the crime in the streets. (Network; writing credit: Paddy Chayefsky) This chick, man, without the sole benefit of dying herself, has broken down the process of dying into five stages: anger, denial, bargaining, depression and acceptance. (All That Jazz; writing credit: Robert Alan Aurthur; Bob Fosse) | |
Clever | Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Feelings of Depression (1950) The Feeling of Depression (1950) Depression Is Over (1935) | |
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 | Dr. Joseph Goldberger conducted the first nutritional research by the Hygienic Laboratory on Staten Island in 1914. He discovered that Pellagra, a disease that caused red and scaly skin, diarrhea, depression and insanity, was caused by vitamin deficiencies.Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | Small, reddish/brownish papule, often with telangiectatic blood vessels. May appear transluscent, and when it is, described as "pearly" in color. May have a central depression with rolled borders.Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |
 | Rabies in humans is almost always fatal. Symptoms may be headache, fatigue, fever and pain at the site of the bite can be present. Behavioral changes like apprehension, anxiety, agitation, irritability, insomnia and depression may also appear.Credit: CDC. |  | Trucks and the Depression make the big parties possible Triangulation party of Paul A. Smith.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Leveling in Mississippi Rodman in depression requiring low instrument setup Level party of H. J. Oliver.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. A wet pond cypress depression.Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |
 | Large submarine depression in the continental shelf off Prince of Wales Island discovered by the Coast and Geodetic Survey. In: "Submarine Mountains in the Gulf of Alaska" by Harold W. Murray of the C&GS. Published in Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, 1941, Vol 52, pp. 333-362. Offprint call number: 526.98 M98.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Lichen at Point Colville with a depression of possibly a foot print where someone turned.Credit: John Craig. |
 | Perspective view from southwest. Photograph by Jet Lowe, summer 1990. (Reproduction Number: HAER ORE,6-NOBE,1-10) At 5,305 feet in length, the Coos Bay Bridge is the longest of the five Public Works Administration bridges built along the Oregon Coastal Highway during the Great Depression. Made of steel, the bridge incorporates many complex structural systems and technological innovations including cantilevers, trusses, and early examples of concrete arches. Motorists feel as though they are driving under a series of arches when they travel over the bridge.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | [Statues from the Depression Awareness Recognition and Treatment campaign].Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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John R. Stott | The Christian's chief occupational hazards are depression and discouragement. |
Pythagoras | Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself. |
Ronald Reagan | Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. |
Steven Wright | Depression is nothing but anger without enthusiasm. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Childhood headache can be a sign of depression. (references) | |
Irritability, anxiety and depression are common. (references) | ||
Marked depression or a sudden change in behavior. (references) | ||
Economic History | Qatar | With the Great Depression and the introduction of Japan's cultured-pearl industry, pearling in Qatar declined drastically. (references) |
Austria | In the early 1930s, worldwide depression and unemployment added to these strains and shattered traditional Austrian society. (references) | |
Dominican Republic | Nonetheless, by 1988 the country slid into a 2-year economic depression, characterized by high inflation and currency devaluation. (references) | |
Human Rights | Morocco | The investigation determined that Akzkane had been suffering from depression and committed suicide in his jail cell. (references) |
Political Economy | FINLAND | State aid to industry was at a relatively high level in Finland in the first years of the 1990s. This was mainly due to the severe depression that Finland experienced at that time. (references) |
Nepal | The Constitution also permits the King to exercise emergency powers in the event of war, external aggression, armed revolt, or extreme economic depression, again on the advice of the Council of Ministers. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Guinea | As a result, child laborers do not have access to education or health care; they suffer from chronic malnutrition, traumatic stress, and depression. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | HYPOCHONDRIASIS, n. Depression of one's own spirits. Some heaps of trash upon a vacant lot Where long the village rubbish had been shot Displayed a sign among the stuff and stumps -- "Hypochondriasis." It meant The Dumps. Bogul S. Purvy |
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Barbara Eden | I don't know that I had a rough childhood. My parents were children of the Depression. I had a poor childhood. We didn't have a lot of money. But I had a wonderful childhood. I had a family that was very warm and loving. |
Rush Limbaugh | The Democrats are already on record saying that we're in the midst of the steepest decline in the NASDAQ since the Great Depression, which, of course, is a flat-out lie. |
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James Monroe | 1817-1825 | On the presumption that this depression and the deficiency in the revenue arising from it would be temporary, loans were authorized for the demands of the last and present year. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | A serious depression here can disrupt the whole fabric of the world economy. |
Dwight Eisenhower | 1953-1961 | We have passed through the anxieties of depression and of war to a summit unmatched in man's history. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | Business bankruptcies have reached their highest level since the Great Depression. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | In my lifetime--in depression and in war--they have awaited our defeat. |
Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | Standing in this same place a third of a century ago, Franklin Delano Roosevelt addressed a Nation ravaged by depression and gripped in fear. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | That was the duty faced by Franklin Roosevelt when he led America out of an economic depression and again when he led America to victory in war. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | We've had great success in restoring our economic integrity, and we've rescued our nation from the worst economic mess since the Depression. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | To Franklin Roosevelt, to fight the failure and pain of the Great Depression, and to win our country's great struggle against fascism. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | Our national courage has been clear in times of depression and war, when defending common dangers defined our common good. |
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| "Depression" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.91% of the time. "Depression" is used about 2,132 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.91% | 2,130 | 4,086 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.05% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (common) | 0.05% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 2,132 | N/A |
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Expressions using "depression": agitated depression ♦ anaclitic depression ♦ Angle of depression ♦ Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression ♦ clinical depression ♦ cyclonic depression ♦ deep depression ♦ Depression (Mild to Moderate) ♦ depression angle ♦ depression centre ♦ depression head ♦ Depression of the dewpoint ♦ Depression of the pole ♦ Depression of the visible horizon ♦ dysthymic depression ♦ economic depression ♦ endogenous depression ♦ episodic fits of depression ♦ exogenous depression ♦ great depression ♦ in depression ♦ involutional depression ♦ lee depression ♦ Manic depression ♦ natural depression ♦ neurotic depression ♦ orographic depression ♦ psychotic depression ♦ reactive depression ♦ Respiratory depression ♦ retarded depression ♦ severe depression ♦ shallow depression ♦ tectonic depression ♦ the Depression ♦ the Great Depression ♦ unipolar depression. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "depression": depression-era, depression-hit. | |
Ending with "depression": manic-depression. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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Afrikaan | krisis (crisis, emergency), beklemming (dejection, oppression), beklemdheid (dejection, oppression), bedruktheid (dejection, oppression, sadness, sorrow). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | depresion, vakum (underpressure), ulje (commutation, cut, cutback, decrease, degradation, derogation, descent, diminution, disparagement, down, drop, falling, immersion, inclination, knee bend, landing, modulation, rebate, reduction, relaxation, sinking), rënie (abatement, bathos, collapse, come down, decadence, decadency, decay, decline, decrepitude, degeneracy, degradation, degression, descent, dilapidation, downfall, drop, drop off, fall, falling, flop, incidence, lapse, letdown, precipitation, prolapse, recession, regress, spill, taper, tumble, wane), mërzi (aridity, blackness, boredom, drag, dumps, ennui, flatness, gloom, mood, spleen, tedium, weariness), gropore, govatë (cavity, chute, dough-trough, eye socket, eyehole, hollow, manger, seed-can, shoot, stall, tray, trough, washtub). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | كساد إقتصادي, كآبة (bleakness, damp, dejection, desolation, despondency, dreariness, gauntness, gloom, gloominess, grief, low spirits, melancholy, moodiness, mope, sadness, sombreness, sorrow, spleen), منطقة الضغط الجوى المنخفض, منخفض (depressed, fading, faint, low, soft), حزن (afflict, aggrieve, anger, bale, be sorrowful, be sorry, cloud, crack, darken, depress, distress, doldrums, gloom, grief, grieve, gripe, heartache, melancholy, pain, sadden, sadness, sadness pain, sorrow), إنخفاض (drooping, reduction, run down, sag, slide, slip). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | угнетеност (damp, oppression, prostration), разреждане на вакуум, навеждане (leaning, tilt), застой (deadlock, dog days, dullness, halt, slack, stagnation, standstill, stasis, tie up), понижение (cut, degradation, descent, falling, lowering, reduction, relegation), подтискане (oppression, suppressing), подтиснатост (anxiety, dejection, inhibition, jim-jams, low spirits, the blues, the dumps), падина (delve, dimple, dip, dish, fold, hollow, hope, pocket, trough), депресия (heaviness, slump). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 蕭條 , 窪 (sunken, swamp), 盆地 (basin), 消沉, 不景氣 (recession, slump). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | deprese (blues, discouragement, low spirits, Slough), dùlek (Dent, dimple, dint, hole), splín (dejection), skleslost (dejection), proláklina, pokles (decline, decrease, diminution, dip, drop, fall, sag, subsidence), krize (crisis, slump, turning point). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | depression (depressive illness, depressive mood). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | depressie (cyclonic depression, depressive illness, economic depression, low, low pressure area, recession, slump, trough), beklemming (agony, anguish, anxiety, dejection, difficulty, fear, oppression). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | deprimo, deprimiteco (dejection), krizo (crisis, emergency), korpremiteco (dejection, oppression). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | kreppa (crisis, emergency). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | فرودافت , پریشانی (Baffle, Bother, Distress, Dolor, Nonplus, Ramble, Remorse, Turmoil, Woe), کسادی (Recession, Slack, Stringency), گودشدگی , تنزل (Abate, Decadence, Decay, Depreciation, Setback), تورفتگی (Dent, Dint, Indent, Recess), افسردگی (Dejection, Doldrums, Freeze, Gloom, Melancholia, Oppression). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | masennus (low spirits), lama (economic depression, recession, slump). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | crise, dépression (cyclonic depression, depressed area, depressiveness, economic depression), découragement (dejection, despondency), abattement (dejection, demand, despondency). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frisian | depresje, krisis (crisis, emergency). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | depression (cyclonic depression, depressive illness, economic depression, low, low pressure area, recession, slump, trough), bedrückung (dejection, oppression, oppressiveness, vexation), vertiefung (absorption, bay, cave, cavity, consolidation, deepening, dent, dip, engrossment, extension, flattening, form, heightening, hollow, immersion, impression, indent, indentation, mould form, mould impression, pit, pocket recess, recess, reinforcement, sludge, step), Unterdrückung (discrimination, elemination, holding back, oppression, oppressiveness, rejection, repression, restraining, suppression), tief (a long way, abyssal, acutely, cavernously, cyclonic depression, deep, deeply, dire, grave, hearty, heavily, heavy, intense, keen, keenly, low, low pressure area, low-pitched, profound, profoundly, sound, soundly, trough, utter, violent), Senke (axial depression, depressed area, reservoir, reservoir compound, reservoir species, saddle, sink, sink species, source, store, swale), melancholie (dejection, gloom, melancholia, melancholy), Krise (crises, crisis, crunch, economic depression, emergency, head, recession, showdown, slump). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κατάθλιψη, ύφεση (abatement, amelioration, decline, decrease, deflation, detente, dιtente, ebb, economic depression, flat, recession, remission, slump, slums), αθυμία (anxiety, depressive mood, difficulty, mirthlessness, moods). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | עק" (oppression, pressure), סכוף (depressed), "כ"וך (chagrin, dejection, dismay, gloom, gloominess, low spirits, moodiness, spleen), "כאון (dejection, dispiritedness, gloominess, hypochondria, melancholia, melancholy, morbidity), "כוי (subjection, suppression), " מכ" (let down, lowering), כאים (gloom, grief, sadness), "שתברות (breaking), מועק" (burden, distress, heaviness, oppression), שקע (hollow, low, mortise, pan, socket, trough), שקוע (bogged down, immersed, immersing, precipitation, sedimentation, sinking, submerged, sunken, wrapped up in), שממון (desolation, dreariness, horror, tediousness), ירי"ת לחץ, מעצב (dejection, gloom, melancholy, sorrow), משקע (deposit, dregs, hole, pit, precipitate, residue, sediment, settling, sinking), "עק" (pressure). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | pangás (doldrums, dullness, slack, slack time, slump, stagnancy, stagnation, stasis), depresszió (mopes, recess), süllyedés (letdown, prolapse, settling, sinking, swag, swale, yield), levertség (affliction, dejectedness, dejection, dispiritedness, droop, heaviness, mood, moodiness, mopes, prostration), leszorítás (arrest, fastening, fixing, strangulation), alacsony légnyomás. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | depresi, penindasan (oppression), kegundahan (dejection, despondency). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | Depressione (blue, dejection, doldrums, drop, dumps, fall, hollow, low, low pressure area, lowness, negative pressure, pressure drop, reduction, sag, structural low, suction, trough), crisi (attack, crisis, emergency, fit, problem, setback, slump). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 憂鬱 (dejection, gloom, melancholy), 不振 (dullness, slump, stagnation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ふきょう (displeasure, ill-humour, propagation, recession, rich and powerful, slump, wealth and power), ていち (anchorage, bottom land, fixed, investigating, low, low ground, lowlands, plain, spying), へ"み (dent, hollow), よくうつ (dejection), ゆううつ (dejection, gloom, melancholy), "うか (chrysanthemum, coin, descent, effect, effectiveness, efficacy, engineering course, evaluation, fall, furlough, gelatinization, hardening, high price, landing, leave of absence, loud singing, marriage of an Imperial princess to a subject, merits and demerits, mineralize, overhead structure, public imposts, rating, result, school song, sclerosis, taxes, toilet, vulcanization, Yellow Peril), いきそそう (rejection), ふけいき (business recession, cheerlessness, gloom, hard times, sullenness), ち"うつ (gloom, melancholy), ふし" (building, center of buoyancy, construction, discredit, disloyalty, distrust, doing everything one can, doubt, dullness, incomplete understanding, infidelity, insincerity, mistrust, perfidy, question, racking one's brains, slump, stagnation, strangeness, suspicion, taking pains to, unfaithfulness), おうしょ (concavity, hollow), うつびょう (melancholia), ひっ"み (retirement, retreat), きうつ (gloom, mental depression), きうつしょう (hypochondria, melancholy), くぼち (basin, hollow, pit), デプレッション , おう (female phoenix bird, hollow, king, monarch, old man, ruler, sovereign, sunken, to bear, to chase, to cut, to grow, to owe, to run after, to spring up, venerable), おうち (back regions, backwoods, basin, hinterland, hollow, interior, pit, reaching a peak, reaching the limit), ふかく (angle of dip, blunder, defeat, failure, indiscretion, mistake, negligence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 불경기. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | neugherjagh (discomfort, miserableness, uncomfortable), merginys, merginaght, lhagragh, lhaggan (dimple), lhaggagh (slack), lhag-chreeys (dejection, desolation, desolation of persons, despond, faint-heartedness), injillaghey (change down, cheap, cheap morally, condescend, cut, cut down, debase, defer, degradation, degrade, demote, demotion, depreciate, depreciation, depress, die down, humiliate, humiliation, level down, reduce, reduction, relegate, sink, step down, subdue, subject, submit, subordinate, subordination, turn down, vulgarization, vulgarize), cor (alternate, bastard, bastard of size, circumstance, condition, condition terms, edge, event, fore, odd, turn, turn act, twirl). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | depresjon, nedtrykking. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Papiamen | krisis (crisis, emergency). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | epressionday depressão (basin, cavity, chill, crater, cyclonic depression, damp, dejection, depressed area, depression centre, depression head, dishing, doldrums, economic depression, goner, hollow, indent, low, low pressure area, low-spiritedness, meiosis, negative pressure, oppressive, pressure drop, prostration, recession, sag, slump, suck-in, trough, valley), crise (access, acme, aggression, attack, bout, conjuncture, crisis, emergency, fit, head, shortage, slump). (various references) deprimare (blue, dejection, doldrums, low spirits, lowness, melancholy, the dismals), depresiune (basin, blues, bottom, cave, cavity, dejection, delve, despondency, draw, hollow, melancholia, notch, pan, sag, scoop), tristeţe (blue, damp, dejection, dullness, gloom, heaviness, melancholy, mourning, sadness), presare (jam, nip, press, pressing, push), marasm (decay), crizã (access, acme, attack, bout, climacteric, crisis, fit, head, juncture, push, slump, spasm, turn), apãsare (heaviness, jam, oppression, press, pressure, push, stress, weight), adânciturã (delve, Dent, hollow, indent, pan, pit, trough). (various references) депрессия (dejection, melancholia). (various references) depresija (low), utučenost (dejection, despond, dispiritedness, heaviness, megrims), nizija. (various references) crisis (access, acme, attack, clutch, conjuncture, crisis, emergency, fit, height, shortage, turn), depresión (cyclonic depression, depressed area, depressive mood, dip, economic depression, hollow, low, negative pressure, pot-hole, pressure drop, recession, scoop, sink, slump, trough, wane). (various references) lågtryck (low, low pressure area, trough), depression (economic depression, recession, slump), svacka (depressed area), sänka (abate, bring down, cut, deflate, depress, depressed area, fold, hollow, lower, reservoir, reservoir compound, reservoir species, scuttle, send down, sink, sink species, store), lågkonjunktur (economic depression, recession, slump). (various references) buhran (acme, crisis, emergency). (various references) смуток (damp, dejection, despondency, discouragement, funk, shadow, sorrow), криза (crisis, slump), ослаблення (abatement, attenuation, dйtente, debilitation, decay, decrease, derogation, dilution, extenuation, impoverishment, labefaction, let down, letup, prostration), зменшення (abatement, attenuation, ax, axe, cutback, cutting, decline, decrease, decrement, degression, diminution, narrowing, wane), застій (back water, stagnancy, stagnation, stasis), занепад (anticlimax, blight, chute, decadence, decadency, decay, declension, declination, decline, degeneracy, degeneration, down grade, nadir, sunset, waste, wasting), депресія (doldrums). (various references) tình trạng trì trệ, tình trạng đình trệ sự suy yếu, sự suy nhược (weakening), sự sụt giá sự nén xuống, sự phiền muộn tình trạng đình đốn, sự ngã lòng (damp, despondency, discouragement, disheartenment), sự bu"n rầu (cloud, sadness, sorrow, sullenness), sự đẩy xuống, phù giác, chỗ sụt xuống sự chán nản, chỗ lõm (recess), chỗ đất lún. (various references) dirwasgiad, digalondid (dejection), pruddglwyf (melancholy), iselder (depth, lowness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | cavum. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "depression": depressions. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "depression": antidepression, postdepression. (additional references) | |
Words containing "depression": antidepressions. (additional references) | |
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"Depression" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Debrezcin, decression, degression, deppresion, deppression, depresion, depressio, depretion, pedrossian. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "depression" (pronounced dupre"shun) |
| 7 | -u p r e" sh u n | oppression, suppression. |
| 6 | -p r e" sh u n | compression, decompression, expression, impression, misimpression, repression. |
| 5 | -r e" sh u n | aggression, digression, discretion, freshen, indiscretion, nonaggression, progression, regression, transgression. |
| 4 | -e" sh u n | accession, concession, confession, hessian, intercession, obsession, possession, precession, procession, profession, recession, repossession, secession, session, succession. |
| 3 | -sh u n | abbreviation, abdication, abduction, aberration, abolition, abomination, abortion, abrogation, absolution, absorption, abstraction, academician, acceleration, acclimation, accommodation, accreditation, accretion, accumulation, accusation, acidification, acquisition, action, activation, adaptation, addiction, addition, adjudication, administration, admiration, admission, admonition, adoption, adoration, adulation, advection, advocation, affectation, affection, affiliation, affirmation, affliction, agglomeration, aggravation, agitation, alienation, allegation, alleviation, alliteration, allocation, alphabetization, alteration, altercation, alternation, amalgamation, ambition, amelioration, ammunition, amortization, amplification, amputation, animation, annexation, annihilation, annotation, antiabortion, anticipation, anticorruption, antidiscrimination, apparition, appellation, application, apportion, appreciation, apprehension, approbation, appropriation, approximation, arbitration, argumentation, articulation, ascension, ashen, aspiration, assassination, assertion, assimilation, association, assumption, attention, attraction, attribution, attrition, auction, audition, augmentation, authentication, authorization, automation, aviation, avocation, balkanization, beautician, benediction, bifurcation, brutalization, calculation, calibration, cancellation, cannibalization, capitalization, capitulation, caption, carburetion, carnation, castration, categorization, causation, caution, celebration, centralization, certification, cessation, cetacean, characterization, circulation, circumspection, citation, civilization, clarification, classification, clinician, coagulation, coalition, codification, coercion, cogeneration, cogitation, cognition, cohabitation, collaboration, collection, collectivization, colonization, coloration, colorization, combination, commemoration, commendation, commercialization, commission, commotion, communication, communization, compassion, compensation, competition, compilation, completion, complexion, complication, composition, comprehension, compulsion, compunction, computation, computerization, concatenation, concentration, conception, conceptualization, conciliation, concoction, concussion, condemnation, condensation, condescension, condition, conduction, confabulation, confection, confederation, configuration, confirmation, confiscation, conflagration, confrontation, conglomeration, congratulation, congregation, conjugation, conjunction, connection, conniption, connotation, conscription, consecration, conservation, consideration, consolation, consolidation, constellation, consternation, constipation, constitution, constriction, construction, consultation, consummation, consumption, contamination, contemplation, contention, continuation, contortion, contraception, contraction, contradiction, contraption, contribution, contrition, convection, convention, conversation, conviction, convocation, convolution, convulsion, cooperation, coordination, coronation, corporation, correction, correlation, corroboration, corruption, counterrevolution, creation, cremation, criminalization, crucifixion, crustacean, culmination, cultivation, cushion, dalmatian, damnation, decaffeination, decapitation, deceleration, decentralization, deception, decertification, decimation, declaration, decommission, decomposition, deconstruction, decontamination, decoration, decriminalization, dedication, deduction, defamation, defection, definition, deflation, deforestation, deformation, degeneration, degradation, dehumanization, dehydration, deification, deinstitutionalization, delegation, deletion, deliberation, delineation, demarcation, demilitarization, demobilization, democratization, demodulation, demolition, demonization, demonstration, demoralization, demotion, denationalization, denomination, dentition, denuclearization, denunciation, depiction, depletion, depopulation, deportation, deposition, depravation, depreciation, depredation, deprivation, deregulation, dereliction, derivation, desalination, desalinization, description, desecration, desegregation, desertion, desiccation, designation, desolation, desperation, destabilization, destination, destitution, destruction, detection, detention, deterioration, determination, detonation, detoxication, detoxification, devaluation, devastation, deviation, devolution, devotion, dictation, diction, dietitian, differentiation, diffraction, dilatation, dilation, dilution, dimension, diminution, direction, disaffection, discoloration, disconnection, discontinuation, discrimination, discussion, disembarkation, disinclination, disinfection, disinflation, disinformation, disintegration, dislocation, disorganization, disorientation, dispensation, disposition, disputation, disqualification, disruption, dissatisfaction, dissection, dissemination, dissension, dissertation, dissipation, dissociation, dissolution, distillation, distinction, distortion, distraction, distribution, diversification, divination, documentation, domestication, domination, donation, dramatization, duplication, duration, dysfunction, echolocation, edification, edition, education, egyptian, ejaculation, ejection, elaboration, elation, election, electrician, electrification, electrocution, elevation, elimination, elocution, elongation, emanation, emancipation, embarkation, emigration, emission, emotion, emulation, emulsion, encryption, enumeration, equalization, equitation, equivocation, eradication, erection, erudition, eruption, escalation, estimation, evacuation, evaluation, evaporation, eviction, evocation, evolution, exacerbation, exaction, exaggeration, examination, exasperation, excavation, exception, excitation, exclamation, excommunication, excoriation, excretion, execution, exemption, exertion, exfoliation, exhalation, exhibition, exhilaration, exhortation, exhumation, exoneration, expansion, expatriation, expectation, expedition, experimentation, expiration, explanation, explication, exploitation, exploration, exposition, expropriation, expulsion, extension, extermination, extinction, extortion, extraction, extradition, extrapolation, fabrication, facilitation, faction, falsification, fascination, fashion, federation, fermentation, fertilization, fibrillation, fiction, figuration, filtration, fission, fixation, flexion, flirtation, flotation, fluctuation, fluoridation, foliation, formalization, formation, formulation, fortification, foundation, fraction, fragmentation, friction, fruition, frustration, fumigation, function, gasification, gastrulation, generalization, generation, gentian, gentrification, geriatrician, germination, gestation, glaciation, globalization, glorification, gradation, graduation, granulation, gratification, gravitation, gumption, gyration, habitation, hallucination, harmonization, hesitation, hibernation, homogenization, hospitalization, humiliation, hybridization, hydration, hydrogenation, hyperinflation, hypertension, hypotension, identification, ignition, illumination, illustration, imagination, imitation, immigration, immunization, impassion, imperfection, impersonation, implantation, implementation, implication, importation, imposition, impregnation, improvisation, imputation, inaction, inactivation, inauguration, incantation, incapacitation, incarceration, incarnation, inception, incineration, inclination, incoordination, incorporation, incrimination, incrustation, incubation, indemnification, indentation, indexation, indication, indignation, indoctrination, induction, industrialization, infarction, infatuation, infection, infestation, infiltration, inflammation, inflation, inflection, infliction, information, infraction, inhabitation, inhalation, inhibition, initiation, injection, injunction, innovation, inoculation, inquisition, inscription, insemination, insertion, insinuation, inspection, inspiration, installation, instigation, institution, institutionalization, instruction, instrumentation, insubordination, insulation, insurrection, integration, intensification, interaction, interception, interconnection, interdiction, interjection, intermission, internationalization, interpretation, interrogation, interruption, intersection, intimation, intimidation, intonation, intoxication, introduction, introspection, intuition, inundation, invalidation, invention, investigation, invitation, invocation, ionization, irradiation, irrigation, irritation, isolation, jubilation, junction, jurisdiction, justification, juxtaposition, laceration, lactation, legalization, legislation, levitation, liberalization, liberation, libration, ligation, lilliputian, limitation, liposuction, liquefaction, liquidation, litigation, localization, location, locomotion, logician, lotion, lubrication, machination, magician, magnetization, magnification, malformation, malfunction, malnutrition, manifestation, manipulation, mansion, marginalization, martian, masturbation, mathematician, maturation, maximization, mechanization, mediation, medication, meditation, menstruation, mention, midsection, migration, mineralization, miniaturization, ministration, misallocation, misapplication, misapprehension, misappropriation, miscalculation, mischaracterization, miscommunication, misconception, miscreation, misidentification, misinformation, misinterpretation, misperception, misrepresentation, mission, mitigation, mobilization, moderation, modernization, modification, modulation, molestation, monopolization, mortician, motion, motivation, multiplication, mummification, munition, musician, mutation, mutilation, narration, nation, nationalization, naturalization, navigation, negation, negotiation, neutralization, nitration, nomination, nondiscrimination, nonfiction, nonprescription, nonproliferation, normalization, notation, notification, notion, nucleation, nullification, nutrition, obfuscation, objection, obligation, observation, obstetrician, obstruction, occupation, ocean, omission, operation, opposition, optician, optimization, option, oration, orchestration, ordination, organisation, organization, orientation, origination, ornamentation, oscillation, ossification, ostentation, ovation, overconsumption, overexpansion, overpopulation, overproduction, overprotection, overreaction, overregulation, oversimplification, overvaluation, ovulation, oxidation, pacification, pagination, palpitation, participation, partition, passion, pasteurization, patrician, pediatrician, penetration, pension, perception, percussion, perfection, perforation, permission, permutation, perpetuation, persecution, personalization, personification, perspiration, perturbation, petition, physician, pigmentation, plantation, polarization, politician, politicization, pollination, pollution, pontification, popularization, population, portion, position, potion, precaution, precipitation, preconception, precondition, predestination, prediction, predilection, predisposition, preelection, preemption, prefabrication, preignition, premeditation, premonition, preoccupation, preparation, prescription, presentation, preservation, pressurization, presumption, presupposition, pretension, prevention, privation, privatization, probation, proclamation, procrastination, procreation, production, profanation, prognostication, prohibition, projection, proliferation, promotion, pronunciation, propagation, proportion, proposition, propulsion, proration, proscription, prosecution, prostitution, prostration, protection, protestation, provocation, publication, punctuation, purification, qualification, quantification, quotation, radiation, radicalization, ramification, ratification, ration, rationalization, reaction, reaffirmation, realization, reallocation, reassertion, reauthorization, recalculation, recantation, recapitalization, reception, recertification, recitation, reclamation, reclassification, recognition, recollection, recommendation, reconciliation, recondition, reconfiguration, reconfirmation, reconsideration, reconstruction, recreation, recrimination, rectification, recuperation, redecoration, rededication, redefinition, redemption, redirection, redistribution, reduction, reeducation, reelection, reevaluation, reexamination, reflation, reflection, reforestation, reformation, refrigeration, refutation, regeneration, regimentation, registration, regulation, rehabilitation, rehydration, reimposition, reincarnation, reincorporation, reinspection, reintegration, reinterpretation, reintroduction, reinvention, reinvigoration, reiteration, rejection, rejuvenation, relation, relaxation, relocation, remediation, remission, remuneration, renationalization, rendition, renegotiation, renomination, renovation, renunciation, reorganization, reparation, repatriation, repercussion, repetition, replication, reposition, representation, reproduction, repudiation, reputation, requisition, reregulation, reservation, resignation, resolution, respiration, restitution, restoration, restriction, resumption, resurrection, resuscitation, retaliation, retardation, retention, retraction, retransmission, retribution, reunification, revaluation, revelation, reverberation, revitalization, revocation, revolution, revulsion, rhetorician, rotation, rumination, salvation, sanctification, sanction, sanitation, saponification, satisfaction, saturation, secretion, section, securitization, sedation, sedimentation, sedition, seduction, segmentation, segregation, selection, sensation, separation, sequestration, simplification, simulation, situation, socialization, solicitation, solution, sophistication, specialization, specification, speculation, stabilization, stagflation, stagnation, standardization, starvation, station, statistician, sterilization, stimulation, stipulation, strangulation, subluxation, submission, subordination, subscription, subsection, subsidization, substantiation, substation, substitution, subtraction, suburbanization, suction, suffocation, summation, superstation, superstition, supposition, suspension, suspicion, syncopation, syndication, tabulation, tactician, taxation, technician, telecommunication, temptation, tension, termination, theoretician, titian, titillation, toleration, traction, tradition, transaction, transcription, transection, transformation, transillumination, transition, translation, transmission, transplantation, transportation, trepidation, triangulation, tribulation, tuition, undervaluation, unification, unionization, urbanization, usurpation, utilization, vacation, vaccination, vacillation, validation, valuation, vaporization, variation, vegetation, venetian, ventilation, verification, vibration, victimization, vilification, vindication, violation, visitation, visualization, vocation, volition, vulgarization, westernization, workstation. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-i-n-o-p-r-s-s" | |
-1 letter: dispenser, indorsees, isoprenes, redispose. | |
-2 letters: deposers, despiser, direness, dispense, disperse, disposer, dopiness, dropsies, endorses, episodes, erepsins, indorsee, indorses, isoprene, pioneers, presides, prisoned, responds, response, ripeness, ropiness, sordines, spenders, spondees. | |
-3 letters: deniers, depones, deposer, deposes, depress, desires, despise, dineros, dispose, dossier, endorse, eosines, episode, erepsin, indorse, nereids, openers, ordines, oreides, orpines, penises, peonies, pereion. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-i-n-o-p-r-s-s" | |
+1 letter: depressions, prednisones. | |
+2 letters: copresidents, derepression, desperations, monodisperse, personalised, processioned. | |
+3 letters: decompressing, decompression, derepressions, endoparasites, nondispersive, predigestions, prednisolones, serendipitous, splendiferous. | |
+4 letters: antidepression, decompressions, depersonalizes, dispensatories, perfidiousness, postdepression, predestinators, productiveness, redescriptions, urediniospores. | |
+5 letters: antidepressions, hypermodernists, predestinations, serendipitously, splendiferously. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 65 70 72 65 73 73 69 6F 6E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. . .--. .-. . ... ... .. --- -. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01100101 01110000 01110010 01100101 01110011 01110011 01101001 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D e p r e s s i o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0065 0070 0072 0065 0073 0073 0069 006F 006E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)38718284718585758180 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Quotations: Familiar | 9. Quotations: Non-fiction 10. Quotations: Spoken 11. Quotations: Speeches 12. Usage Frequency | 13. Expressions 14. Expressions: Internet 15. Translations: Modern 16. Translations: Ancient | 17. Derivations 18. Rhymes 19. Anagrams 20. Orthography | 21. Bibliography |
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