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depressionnoun a period of decreased economic activityduring the 1930s the U.S. suffered a great depression recession, slump bust, crash, panicstagnationdownbeat, downdraft, downswing, downtrend, downturn, slowdown boom development, growthadvancement, progressrally, recovery a state or spell of low spiritsshe called her friend to see if a sympathetic ear would relieve his depression blue devils, blues, dejection, desolation, despond, despondence, despondency, disconsolateness, dispiritedness, doldrums, dolefulness, downheartedness, dreariness, dumps, forlornness, gloom, gloominess, glumness, heartsickness, joylessness, melancholy, miserableness, mopes, mournfulness, oppression, sadness, sorrowfulness, unhappiness melancholia, self-pityanguish, dolor, grief, mourning, somberness, sorrow, woefulnessagony, distress, painmisery, woe, wretchednessdiscouragement, disheartenmentmoodinessdespair, desperation, hopelessness, self-despairboredom, ennui, tediumdismalness, drear, morbidness, moroseness, morosityregret, rue bliss, blissfulness, ecstasy, elatedness, elation, euphoria, exhilaration, exuberance, exultation, felicity, gladness, gladsomeness, happiness, heaven, intoxication, joy, joyfulness, joyousness, jubilation, rapture, rapturousness gaiety(also gayety), gayness, glee, gleefulness, humor, jollity, joviality, lightheartedness, merriment, mirth, mirthfulnesscheer, cheerfulness, cheeriness, hopefulness, optimism, sunninesscontent, contentedness, contentment, satisfactiondelight, gratification a sunken area forming a separate spacethe water generally collects in the patchwork of depressions in the city plaza cavity, concavity, dent, dint, hole, hollow, indentation, indenture, pit, recess burrow, cave, cavern, ditch, excavation, furrow, groove, gutter, trench, troughbasin, bowl, valleyalcove, cleft, niche, nook, opening, socketalveolus, dimple, gouge, impression, imprint, notch, pocketborehole, chuckhole, crater, posthole, pothole, sinkhole, wallow, water hole, wellabyss, chasm, gulf, vacuity, vacuum, void bulge, camber, convexity, jut, projection, protrusion, protuberance hill, mound, risebump, bunch, hump, lump, pimple, swell, swelling, tumor the amount by which something is lesseneda depression in the number of new homes being built abatement, decline, decrease, decrement, dent, depletion, diminishment, diminution, drop, drop-off, fall, falloff, loss, reduction, shrinkage, step-down deduction, subtractiondownturn, slip, slumpcurtailment, cut, cutback, retrenchment, shortening boost, enlargement, gain, increase, increment, raise, rise, step-up, uptick accretion, accrual, accumulation, addition, supplementcontinuation, extensionupswing, uptrend, upturn in the 14th century |