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say it: di-PRESH-uhn
depression is a noun meaning "a mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity". It carries 10 recorded senses.
a mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity
a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment
sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy
a period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic depression and mass unemployment
a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention
a concavity in a surface produced by pressing
“he left the impression of his fingers in the soft mud”
angular distance below the horizon (especially of a celestial object)
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for depression come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.