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depression

depression is a 10-letter English word with 19 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of depressing. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

10 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 15 · 19 senses

Definitions

  1. 1noun

    The act of depressing.

  2. 2noun

    The state of being depressed; a sinking.

  3. 3noun

    A falling in of the surface; a sinking below its true place; a cavity or hollow; as, roughness consists in little protuberances and depressions.

  4. 4noun

    Humiliation; abasement, as of pride.

  5. 5noun

    Dejection; despondency; lowness.

  6. 6noun

    Diminution, as of trade, etc.; inactivity; dullness.

  7. 7noun

    The angular distance of a celestial object below the horizon.

  8. 8noun

    The operation of reducing to a lower degree; -- said of equations.

  9. 9noun

    A method of operating for cataract; couching. See Couch. t., 8.

  10. 10noun

    pushing down

    "depression of the space bar on the typewriter"

  11. 11noun

    sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy

  12. 12noun

    a sunken or depressed geological formation

  13. 13noun

    angular distance below the horizon (especially of a celestial object)

  14. 14noun

    a concavity in a surface produced by pressing

    "he left the impression of his fingers in the soft mud"

    Synonyms

    impressionimprint
  15. 15noun

    a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention

  16. 16noun

    a mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity

  17. 17noun

    a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment

    Synonyms

    slump
  18. 18noun

    an air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation

    "a low moved in over night bringing sleet and snow"

    Synonyms

    low
  19. 19noun

    a period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic depression and mass unemployment

Synonyms

impressionimprintslumplow

Common word forms

depressionsdepressional

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