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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024de•pres•sion /dɪˈprɛʃən/USA pronunciation n. - a depressed or sunken place or part;
an area lower than the surrounding surface:[countable]a depression in the carpet where the lamp had stood. - sadness;
dejection, esp. sadness greater and longer than considered normal:[uncountable]suffered from long periods of depression. - Business a period during which business, employment, and stock-market values fall;
a decline in the economy:[countable]In the 1930's the world experienced a severe depression. - Meteorology an area of low air pressure in the atmosphere:[countable]a tropical depression in Bermuda.
See -press-. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024de•pres•sion (di presh′ən),USA pronunciation n. - the act of depressing.
- Psychiatrythe state of being depressed.
- a depressed or sunken place or part;
an area lower than the surrounding surface. - sadness;
gloom;
dejection. - Psychiatrya condition of general emotional dejection and withdrawal;
sadness greater and more prolonged than that warranted by any objective reason. Cf. clinical depression. - dullness or inactivity, as of trade.
- Economics, Businessa period during which business, employment, and stock-market values decline severely or remain at a very low level of activity.
- American History the Depression. See Great Depression.
- Pathologya low state of vital powers or functional activity.
- Astronomythe angular distance of a celestial body below the horizon;
negative altitude. - Surveyingthe angle between the line from an observer or instrument to an object below either of them and a horizontal line.
- Geography[Phys. Geog.]an area completely or mostly surrounded by higher land, ordinarily having interior drainage and not conforming to the valley of a single stream.
- Meteorologyan area of low atmospheric pressure.
- Medieval Latin dēpressiōn- (stem of dēpressiō), Late Latin: a pressing down, equivalent. to Latin dēpress(us) (see depress) + -iōn- -ion
- Anglo-French)
- Middle English (1350–1400
- 4.See corresponding entry in Unabridged discouragement, despondency.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: depression /dɪˈprɛʃən/ n - the act of depressing or state of being depressed
- a depressed or sunken place or area
- a mental disorder characterized by extreme gloom, feelings of inadequacy, and inability to concentrate
- an abnormal lowering of the rate of any physiological activity or function, such as respiration
- an economic condition characterized by substantial and protracted unemployment, low output and investment, etc; slump
Also called: cyclone, low a large body of rotating and rising air below normal atmospheric pressure, which often brings rain- (esp in surveying and astronomy) the angular distance of an object, celestial body, etc, below the horizontal plane through the point of observation
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: Depression /dɪˈprɛʃən/ n - the Depression ⇒ the worldwide economic depression of the early 1930s, when there was mass unemployment
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