Synonyms and Antonyms of depression
1
a period of decreased economic activity
- during the 1930s the U.S. suffered a great depression
2
a state or spell of low spirits
- she called her friend to see if a sympathetic ear would relieve his depression
blue devils, blues, dejection, desolation, despond, despondence, despondency, disconsolateness, dispiritedness, doldrums, dolefulness, downheartedness, dreariness, dumps, forlornness, gloom, gloominess, glumness, heartsickness, joylessness, melancholy, miserableness, mopes, mournfulness, oppression, sadness, sorrowfulness, unhappiness
melancholia, self-pity
anguish, dolor, grief, mourning, somberness, sorrow, woefulness
agony, distress, pain
misery, woe, wretchedness
discouragement, disheartenment
moodiness
despair, desperation, hopelessness, self-despair
boredom, ennui, tedium
dismalness, drear, morbidness, moroseness, morosity
regret, rue
gaiety (also gayety), gayness, glee, gleefulness, humor, jollity, joviality, lightheartedness, merriment, mirth, mirthfulness
cheer, cheerfulness, cheeriness, hopefulness, optimism, sunniness
content, contentedness, contentment, satisfaction
delight, gratification
bliss, blissfulness, ecstasy, elatedness, elation, euphoria, exhilaration, exuberance, exultation, felicity, gladness, gladsomeness, happiness, heaven, intoxication, joy, joyfulness, joyousness, jubilation, rapture, rapturousness
3
a sunken area forming a separate space
- the water generally collects in the patchwork of depressions in the city plaza
burrow, cave, cavern, ditch, excavation, furrow, groove, gutter, trench, trough
basin, bowl, valley
alcove, cleft, niche, nook, opening, recess, socket
alveolus, dimple, gouge, impression, imprint, notch, pocket
borehole, chuckhole,
