| Main Entry: | stagnation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | inactivity |
Synonyms: |
calm, dullness, quiescence, sluggishness, stasis, status, torpidity, torpor |
Antonyms: |
boom, rise |
| Main Entry: | depression |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | economic decline |
Synonyms: |
bad times, bankruptcy, bear market, big trouble, bottom out, bust, crash, crisis, deflation, dislocation, downturn, drop, failure, hard times, inactivity, inflation, overproduction, panic, paralysis, rainy days, recession, retrenchment, sag, slide, slowness, slump, stagflation, stagnation, unemployment |
Antonyms: |
recovery, surge |
| Main Entry: | doldrums |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | depression |
Synonyms: |
apathy, black mood, blahs, blue funk, blues, boredom, bummer, dejection, disinterest, dismals, downer, dullness, dumps, ennui, funk, gloom, inactivity, indifference, inertia, lassitude, letdown, listlessness, malaise, mopes, slump, stagnation, stupor, tedium, torpor, yawn |
Antonyms: |
elation, gladness, glee, happiness, joy |
| Main Entry: | recession |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | reversal of action; reduction of business activity |
Synonyms: |
bad times, bankruptcy, big trouble, bottom-out, bust, collapse, decline, deflation, depression, downturn, hard times, inflation, rainy days, shakeout, slide, slump, stagnation, unemployment |
| Notes: | a choir entering a church is a procession; leaving is a recession |
Antonyms: |
advance, inflation |
| Main Entry: | slowdown |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | slacking off; gradual decrease |
Synonyms: |
arrest, deceleration, decline, delay, downtrend, downturn, drop, drop-off, falloff, freeze, inactivity, retardation, slack, slackening, slow-up, stagnation, stoppage, strike |
Antonyms: |
breakthrough, increase, rise, speed-up |
| Main Entry: | slump |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | decline, failure |
Synonyms: |
bad period, bad times, blight, blue devils, blue funk, bottom, bust, collapse, crash, depreciation, depression, descent, dip, downer, downslide, downswing, downtrend, downturn, drop, dumps, fall, falling-off, funk, hard times, letdown, low, rainy days, recession, reverse, rut, sag, slide, slip, stagnation, the skids, trough |
Antonyms: |
blessing, boon, increase, success |
| Main Entry: | inaction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | state of doing nothing |
Synonyms: |
acedia, deferral, deliquescence, depression, doldrums, dormancy, ennui, fecklessness, idleness, inactivity, indolence, inertia, inertness, lassitude, lethargy, otiosity, passivity, quiescence, quietude, slothfulness, stagnation, stasis, suspension, torpidity, torpor |
Antonyms: |
action |
| Main Entry: | inactivity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | inaction |
Synonyms: |
dawdling, dilly-dallying, dormancy, droning, goof-off time, hibernation, idleness, indolence, inertia, inertness, inoperativeness, joblessness, laze, lazing, leisure, lethargy, loafing, loitering, otiosity, own sweet time, pottering, shiftlessness, sloth, slothfulness, slouch, slowness, sluggishness, stagnation, stupor, time on one's hands, time to burn, time to kill, time-wasting, torpidity, torpor, trifling, truancy, unemployment, vegetating |
| Main Entry: | inertness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | inaction |
Synonyms: |
dawdling, dilly-dallying, dormancy, droning, goof-off time, hibernation, idleness, inactivity, indolence, inertia, inoperativeness, joblessness, laze, lazing, leisure, lethargy, loafing, loitering, otiosity, own sweet time, pottering, shiftlessness, sloth, slothfulness, slouch, slowness, sluggishness, stagnation, stupor, time on one's hands, time to burn, time to kill, time-wasting, torpidity, torpor, trifling, truancy, unemployment, vegetating |
| Main Entry: | inoperativeness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | inaction |
Synonyms: |
dawdling, dilly-dallying, dormancy, droning, goof-off time, hibernation, idleness, inactivity, indolence, inertia, inertness, joblessness, laze, lazing, leisure, lethargy, loafing, loitering, otiosity, own sweet time, pottering, shiftlessness, sloth, slothfulness, slouch, slowness, sluggishness, stagnation, stupor, time on one's hands, time to burn, time to kill, time-wasting, torpidity, torpor, trifling, truancy, unemployment, vegetating |