depression
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(noun) pushing down; "depression of the space bar on the typewriter" |
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Related Words: click, mouse click, push, pushing |
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(noun) sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy |
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Related Words: demoralization, despondence, despondency, disconsolateness, dysphoria, heartsickness, helplessness, oppression, oppressiveness, sadness, unhappiness |
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(noun) angular distance below the horizon (especially of a celestial object) |
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Related Words: angular position |
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(noun) a concavity in a surface produced by pressing; "he left the impression of his fingers in the soft mud" |
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Synonyms: impression, imprint |
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Related Words: chap, concave shape, concavity, crack, cranny, crease, crevice, crinkle, dent, dimple, dip, droop, fissure, furrow, groove, incision, line, notch, prick, sag, scratch, seam, slit, wrinkle |
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(noun) a mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity |
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Related Words: blue funk, blues, dejection, funk, low spirits, megrims, melancholia, melancholy, mental state, psychological state, slough of despond |
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Antonyms: elation |
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(noun) a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment |
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Synonyms: economic crisis, slump |
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Related Words: Great Depression, economic condition, financial condition |
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(noun) a sunken or depressed geological formation |
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Synonyms: natural depression |
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Related Words: basin, bed, bottom, crater, formation, geological formation, geology, gully, hole, hollow, lowland, sinkhole, swallow hole, trench, trough, vale, valley |
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(noun) a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention |
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Synonyms: clinical depression, depressive disorder |
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Related Words: affective disorder, agitated depression, anaclitic depression, emotional disorder, emotional disturbance, endogenous depression, exogenous depression, major affective disorder, major depressive episode, neurotic depression, psychotic depression, reactive depression, retarded depression |
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(noun) an air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation; "a low moved in over night bringing sleet and snow" |
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Synonyms: low, low pressure |
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Related Words: air mass |
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