dysthymic depression

1. 1.

   mild chronic depression

   “I thought she had just been in a bad mood for thirty years, but the doctor called it dysthymia”

   Synonymsdysthymia

   Broaderdepressive disorder

Questions about dysthymic depression

What does dysthymic depression mean?

dysthymic depression means "mild chronic depression".

What is another word for dysthymic depression?

Close synonyms include dysthymia. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dysthymic depression a common word?

dysthymic depression is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.