depression 音标拼音: [dɪpr'ɛʃən]
n . 压抑,抑制,沮丧;萧条,衰退
压抑,抑制,沮丧;萧条,衰退
depression n 1 :
a mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity [
ant :
{
elation }]
2 :
a long -
term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment [
synonym :
{
depression }, {
slump }, {
economic crisis }]
3 :
a sunken or depressed geological formation [
synonym : {
natural depression }, {
depression }] [
ant : {
elevation }, {
natural elevation }]
4 :
sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy 5 :
a period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic depression and mass unemployment [
synonym : {
Depression }, {
Great Depression }]
6 :
an air mass of lower pressure ;
often brings precipitation ; "
a low moved in over night bringing sleet and snow " [
synonym : {
low },
{
depression }]
7 :
a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention [
synonym : {
depressive disorder }, {
clinical depression }, {
depression }]
8 :
a concavity in a surface produced by pressing ; "
he left the impression of his fingers in the soft mud " [
synonym :
{
depression }, {
impression }, {
imprint }]
9 :
angular distance below the horizon (
especially of a celestial object )
10 :
pushing down ; "
depression of the space bar on the typewriter "
Depression \
De *
pres "
sion \,
n . [
L .
depressio :
cf .
F .
d ['
e ]
pression .]
1 .
The act of depressing .
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2 .
The state of being depressed ;
a sinking .
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3 .
A falling in of the surface ;
a sinking below its true place ;
a cavity or hollow ;
as ,
roughness consists in little protuberances and depressions .
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4 .
Humiliation ;
abasement ,
as of pride .
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5 .
Dejection ;
despondency ;
lowness .
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In a great depression of spirit . --
Baker .
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6 .
Diminution ,
as of trade ,
etc .;
inactivity ;
dullness .
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7 . (
Astron .)
The angular distance of a celestial object below the horizon .
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8 . (
Math .)
The operation of reducing to a lower degree ; --
said of equations .
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9 . (
Surg .)
A method of operating for cataract ;
couching .
See {
Couch },
v .
t .,
8 .
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{
Angle of depression } (
Geod .),
one which a descending line makes with a horizontal plane .
{
Depression of the dewpoint } (
Meteor .),
the number of degrees that the dew -
point is lower than the actual temperature of the atmosphere .
{
Depression of the pole },
its apparent sinking ,
as the spectator goes toward the equator .
{
Depression of the visible horizon }. (
Astron .)
Same as {
Dip of the horizon },
under {
Dip }.
Syn :
Abasement ;
reduction ;
sinking ;
fall ;
humiliation ;
dejection ;
melancholy .
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259 Moby Thesaurus words for "
depression ":
Schmerz ,
Slough of Despond ,
abatement ,
abridgment ,
abstraction ,
abulia ,
aching heart ,
agony ,
agony of mind ,
alienation ,
alleviation ,
alveolation ,
alveolus ,
anguish ,
antrum ,
anxiety ,
anxiety equivalent ,
anxiety state ,
apathy ,
armpit ,
attenuation ,
bad times ,
bale ,
basin ,
bitterness ,
blank despondency ,
blaze ,
bleakness ,
bleeding heart ,
blues ,
boom ,
bottoming out ,
bowl ,
broken heart ,
business cycle ,
business fluctuations ,
bust ,
catatonic stupor ,
cavity ,
cheerlessness ,
cleft ,
comfortlessness ,
compulsion ,
concave ,
concavity ,
contraction ,
cooling off ,
couchancy ,
crater ,
crena ,
crisis ,
crushing ,
crypt ,
cup ,
cut ,
dampening ,
damping ,
death wish ,
debasement ,
decrease ,
decrement ,
decrescence ,
deduction ,
deepening ,
deflation ,
dejectedness ,
dejection ,
dent ,
depreciation ,
depth of misery ,
desolation ,
despair ,
despondency ,
despondentness ,
detachment ,
digging ,
diminishment ,
diminution ,
dimple ,
dip ,
discomfort ,
discouragement ,
disheartenment ,
dismalness ,
dispiritedness ,
distress ,
distressfulness ,
down trip ,
downcastness ,
downer ,
downheartedness ,
downturn ,
dreariness ,
drilling ,
drooping spirits ,
dying ,
dying off ,
economic cycle ,
economic expansion ,
economic growth ,
economic stagnation ,
elation ,
emotionalism ,
euphoria ,
evil day ,
excavation ,
expanding economy ,
expansion ,
extenuation ,
extremity ,
fade -
out ,
fold ,
folie du doute ,
follicle ,
funnel chest ,
gash ,
gloom ,
gloominess ,
glumness ,
grief ,
grievousness ,
growth ,
hack ,
hard times ,
heartache ,
heartlessness ,
heavy heart ,
heavy weather ,
high growth rate ,
hole ,
hollow ,
hollow shell ,
hollowness ,
hopelessness ,
hypochondria ,
hysteria ,
hysterics ,
impression ,
incision ,
incurvation ,
incurvature ,
incurvity ,
indentation ,
indifference ,
infelicity ,
insensibility ,
jag ,
jog ,
joggle ,
joylessness ,
kerf ,
lacuna ,
lamentability ,
lamentation ,
languishment ,
lessening ,
lethargy ,
letup ,
low ,
low spirits ,
lowering ,
lowness ,
lowness of spirit ,
lying ,
lying down ,
malaise ,
mania ,
market expansion ,
melancholia ,
melancholy ,
mental distress ,
miniaturization ,
mining ,
misery ,
mitigation ,
mournfulness ,
nick ,
nock ,
notch ,
obsession ,
oppression ,
pain ,
painfulness ,
pathological indecisiveness ,
pathos ,
peak ,
peaking ,
pessimism ,
pit ,
pitiability ,
pitiableness ,
pitifulness ,
pocket ,
poignancy ,
preoccupation ,
probing ,
proneness ,
prosperity ,
prostration ,
psychalgia ,
psychomotor disturbance ,
punch bowl ,
rainy day ,
recess ,
recession ,
reclining ,
recovery ,
recumbency ,
reduction ,
regrettableness ,
relaxation ,
sad times ,
sadness ,
sagging ,
scaling down ,
scoop ,
score ,
scotch ,
self -
destructive urge ,
sharpness ,
shell ,
shortness ,
simplicity ,
sink ,
sinkage ,
sinking ,
sinking heart ,
sinus ,
slowdown ,
slump ,
socket ,
sorrowfulness ,
spiritlessness ,
squatness ,
squattiness ,
stormy weather ,
stumpiness ,
stupor ,
subjacency ,
subtraction ,
suicidal despair ,
supineness ,
taedium vitae ,
the blues ,
tic ,
trough ,
tunneling ,
twitching ,
unhappiness ,
unresponsiveness ,
upturn ,
vug ,
weakening ,
weariness of life ,
withdrawal ,
woe ,
woebegoneness ,
woefulness ,
wretchedness
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