natural depression

1. 1.

   a sunken or depressed geological formation

   Synonymsdepression

   Antonymsnatural elevation

   Broadergeological formation

   Narrowerbasinbedcraterholelowlandsinkholetrenchtroughvalley

Questions about natural depression

What does natural depression mean?

natural depression means "a sunken or depressed geological formation".

What is another word for natural depression?

Close synonyms include depression. 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.

What is the opposite of natural depression?

The recorded antonyms are natural elevation.

Is natural depression a common word?

natural 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.