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| Main Entry: | depression |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | low spirits; despair |
| Synonyms: | abasement, blue funk, bummer, dejection, desolation, desperation, despondency, discouragement, distress, dole, dolor, dullness, dumps, ennui, gloom, melancholy, misery, mortification, qualm, sadness, sorrow, trouble, unhappiness, worry, abjection, abjectness, blahs, bleakness, cheerlessness, disconsolation, dispiritedness, dolefulness, downheartedness, dreariness, gloominess, heaviness of heart, heavyheartedness, hopelessness, lowness, lugubriosity, melancholia, the blues, vapors, woefulness |
| Antonyms: | cheerfulness, encouragement, happiness, hope, hopefulness |
| Main Entry: | depression |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | economic decline |
| Synonyms: | bankruptcy, bear market*, bust, crash, crisis, dislocation, downturn, drop, failure, inflation, panic, recession, sag, slide, slowness, slump, stagnation, bad times, big trouble, bottom out, deflation, hard times, inactivity, overproduction, paralysis, rainy days, retrenchment, stagflation, unemployment |
| Antonyms: | recovery, surge |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | depression |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | concavity, cavity |
| Synonyms: | basin, bowl, crater, dent, dimple, dip, excavation, hole, hollow, impression, indentation, pit, pocket, sag, scoop, sink, vacuity, vacuum, valley, void, sinkage, sinkhole |
| Antonyms: | bulge, protuberance, convexity |
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| Synonyms: |
-nouns
lowering; depression; dip (concavity) [more]; abasement; detrusion; reduction., overthrow, overset, overturn; upset; prostration, subversion, precipitation., bow; courtesy, curtsy; genuflexion, genuflection, kowtow, obeisance, salaam.
-verbs
depress, lower, let down, take down, let down a peg, take down a peg; cast; let drop, let fall; sink, debase, bring low, abase, reduce, detrude, pitch, precipitate., overthrow, overturn, overset; upset, subvert, prostate, level, fell; cast down, take down, throw down, fling down, dash down, pull down, cut down, knock down, hew down; rase to the ground; trample in the dust, pull about one's ears., sit, sit down; couch, squat, crouch, stoop, bend, bow; courtesy, curtsy; bob, duck, dip, kneel; bend the knee, bow the knee, bend the head, bow the head; cower; recline (be horizontal) [more].
-adjectives
depressed; at a low ebb; prostrate (horizontal) [more]; detrusive.
-phrases
facinus quos inquinat aequat [Lucan].
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| Antonyms: | elevation |
| Main Entry: | affliction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hurt condition; something that causes hurt |
| Synonyms: | adversity, anguish, calamity, cross, crux, depression, difficulty, disease, disorder, distress, grief, hardship, illness, infirmity, misery, misfortune, ordeal, pain, plague, plight, scourge, sickness, sorrow, suffering, torment, trial, tribulation, trouble, woe |
| Antonyms: | aid, comfort, consolation, health, help, relief |
| Main Entry: | angst |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | feeling of anxiety |
| Synonyms: | agony, apprehension, blues, depression, dread, misgiving, nervousness, uneasiness, Weltschmerz, mid-life crisis |
| Main Entry: | basin |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | container or area where water is held |
| Synonyms: | bay, bowl, concavity, depression, dip, ewer, gulf, hole, hollow, lagoon, pan, pool, pot, sag, sink, tub, valley, vessel, sinkage, sinkhole, washbasin, washbowl, watershed |
| Main Entry: | cavity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sunken or decayed area |
| Synonyms: | armpit, atrium, basin, chamber, crater, decay, dent, depression, gap, hole, hollow, pit, pocket, sinus, vacuity, void, bursa, caries, socket |
| Main Entry: | decrease |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | diminishing, lessening |
| Synonyms: | abatement, compression, condensation, constriction, contraction, cutback, decline, depression, diminution, discount, downturn, ebb, loss, reduction, shrinkage, waning, declining, decrescence, dwindling, falling off, striction, subsidence |
| Antonyms: | addition, development, enlargement, expansion, growth, increase, raise |
| Main Entry: | dimple |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indentation |
| Synonyms: | cleft, concavity, dent, depression, hollow, pit, divot |
| Main Entry: | disaster |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | accident, trouble |
| Synonyms: | act of God*, adversity, affliction, bad luck, bad news*, bale, bane, blight, blow, bust, calamity, casualty, cataclysm, catastrophe, collapse, collision, crash, debacle, defeat, depression, emergency, exigency, failure, fall, fiasco, flood, flop, grief, harm, hazard, holocaust, hot water, misadventure, mischance, misfortune, mishap, reverse, rock, rough, ruin, setback, slip, stroke, tragedy, undoing, upset, washout*, woe, fell stroke, hard luck, ill luck, ruination, the worst |
| Antonyms: | blessing, good luck, miracle, prosperity, success, triumph, win, wonder, good fortune |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | discontent |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dissatisfaction |
| Synonyms: | depression, displeasure, envy, regret, restlessness, uneasiness, unhappiness, vexation, discontentment, fretfulness |
| Antonyms: | easiness, happiness, patience, pleasure, satisfaction, contentedness |
| Main Entry: | emergency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | crisis, danger |
| Synonyms: | accident, climax, clutch*, compulsion, crossroad, crunch*, depression, difficulty, distress, exigency, extremity, fix, hole, impasse, juncture, misadventure, necessity, pass, pinch*, plight, predicament, pressure, push, quandary, scrape, squeeze, strait, tension, turning point, urgency, vicissitude, zero hour*, meltdown |
| Antonyms: | calm, peace |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ennui |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | boredom |
| Synonyms: | apathy, blues, dejection, depression, dissatisfaction, doldrums, dumps*, fatigue, languor, lassitude, listlessness, melancholy, sadness, surfeit, tedium, weariness, yawn*, blahs, ho hums, lack of interest, languidness, satiety, spiritlessness |
| Antonyms: | energy, enthusiasm, excitement, liveliness, vigor |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | grief |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mental suffering |
| Synonyms: | affliction, agony, anguish, bereavement, care, dejection, depression, desolation, despair, despondency, discomfort, disquiet, distress, dole, dolor, gloom, grievance, harassment, heartache, heartbreak, lamenting, malaise, melancholy, misery, mortification, mourning, pain, purgatory, regret, remorse, rue, sadness, sorrow, torture, trial, tribulation, trouble, unhappiness, vexation, woe, worry, wretchedness, bemoaning, bewailing, deploring, infelicity, lamentation, mournfulness, repining |
| Antonyms: | delight, ecstasy, exhilaration, happiness |
| Main Entry: | heartache |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | anguish, sorrow |
| Synonyms: | affliction, agony, bitterness, dejection, depression, despair, despondency, distress, dolor, grief, heartbreak, heavy heart, misery, pang, remorse, sadness, suffering, torment, torture, broken heart, hurting |
| Main Entry: | hollow |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | empty or dented area |
| Synonyms: | basin, bottom, bowl, cave, cavern, cavity, chamber, channel, cleft, concavity, crater, cup, dale, den, depression, dimple, dip, dish, excavation, groove, gulf, hole, indentation, notch, pit, pocket, sag, scoop, trough, vacuity, valley, void, sinkage, sinkhole, socket |
| Antonyms: | solid |
| Main Entry: | mental illness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | emotional disorder |
| Synonyms: | depression, derangement, insanity, lunacy, madness, mania, nervous breakdown, neurosis, phobia, craziness, delusions, disturbed mind, emotional disorder, emotional instability, loss of mind, maladjustment, mental disease, mental disorder, mental sickness, nervous disorder, neurotic disorder, paranoia, personality disorder, psychopathy, psychosis, schizophrenia, sick mind, troubled mind, unbalanced mind, unsoundness of mind |
| Main Entry: | mold |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | form, pattern |
| Synonyms: | cast, cavity, character, class, depression, description, design, die, frame, image, impression, kind, lot, matrix, model, nature, shape, sort, stamp, type, womb |
| Main Entry: | mood |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | state of mind |
| Synonyms: | affection, air, atmosphere, attitude, aura, bent*, blues*, caprice, character, color*, condition, crotchet, cue, depression, desire, disposition, doldrums, dumps*, emotion, fancy, feel*, feeling, frame of mind*, humor, inclination, individuality, melancholy, mind, personality, pleasure, propensity, response, scene, semblance, soul, spirit, strain, temper, temperament, tendency, tenor, timbre, vagary, vein, whim, wish, high spirits, low spirits |
| Antonyms: | health |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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