1. depression

noun. ['dɪˈprɛʃən'] a mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity.

Rhymes with Depression

• transgression
• misimpression
• indiscretion
• decompression
• retrocession
• nonaggression
• repossession
• progression
• expression
• discretion
• compression
• suppression
• succession
• repression
• regression
• profession
• procession
• precession
• intercession
• impression
• digression
• confession
• concession
• secession
• recession
• possession
• oppression
• obsession
• aggression
• accession

How do you pronounce depression?

Pronounce depression as dɪˈprɛʃən.

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Sentences with depression

1. Noun, singular or mass
Now, you can use the freezing point depression equation to find the new freezing point of the solution.

Quotes about depression

1. Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.
- Jeanette Winterson

2. Depression can seem worse than terminal cancer, because most cancer patients feel loved and they have hope and self-esteem.
- David D. Burns

3. Here is the tragedy: when you are the victim of depression, not only do you feel utterly helpless and abandoned by the world, you also know that very few people can understand, or even begin to believe, that life can be this painful. There is nothing I can think of that is quite as isolating as this.
- Giles Andreae

2. depression

noun. ['dɪˈprɛʃən'] a sunken or depressed geological formation.

3. depression

noun. ['dɪˈprɛʃən'] a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment.

4. depression

noun. ['dɪˈprɛʃən'] sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy.

5. depression

noun. ['dɪˈprɛʃən'] a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention.

6. depression

noun. ['dɪˈprɛʃən'] angular distance below the horizon (especially of a celestial object).

7. depression

noun. ['dɪˈprɛʃən'] a concavity in a surface produced by pressing.

8. depression

noun. ['dɪˈprɛʃən'] an air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation.

9. depression

noun. ['dɪˈprɛʃən'] pushing down.

10. Depression

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