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. noun. The act of depressing.
2. noun. The state of being depressed; a sinking.
3. noun. 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. noun. Humiliation; abasement, as of pride.
5. noun. Dejection; despondency; lowness.
6. noun. Diminution, as of trade, etc.; inactivity; dullness.
7. noun. The angular distance of a celestial object below the horizon.
8. noun. The operation of reducing to a lower degree; -- said of equations.
9. noun. A method of operating for cataract; couching. See Couch, v. t., 8.
10. noun. pushing down

    "depression of the space bar on the typewriter"

11. noun. sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy
12. noun. a sunken or depressed geological formation
13. noun. angular distance below the horizon (especially of a celestial object)
14. noun. a concavity in a surface produced by pressing

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

    Synonyms: impression, imprint

15. noun. a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention
16. noun. a mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity
17. noun. a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment

    Synonyms: slump

18. noun. an air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation

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

    Synonyms: low

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

Synonyms

impression, imprint, slump, low

Common word forms

depressions, depressional

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