Main entry: depression
Definition: pushing down
Usage: depression of the space bar on the typewriter
Main entry: depression
Definition: sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy
Main entry: natural depression, depression
Definition: a sunken or depressed geological formation
Main entry: depression
Definition: angular distance below the horizon (especially of a celestial object)
Main entry: depression, impression, imprint
Definition: a concavity in a surface produced by pressing
Usage: he left the impression of his fingers in the soft mud
Main entry: depression, depressive disorder, clinical depression
Definition: a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention
Main entry: depression
Definition: a mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity
Main entry: slump, depression, economic crisis
Definition: a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment
Main entry: low, depression
Definition: an air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation
Usage: a low moved in over night bringing sleet and snow
Main entry: Great Depression, Depression
Definition: a period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic depression and mass unemployment