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depression
Synonyms and Antonyms of depression
- During the 1930s the U.S. suffered a great depression.
- She called her friend to see if a sympathetic ear would relieve his depression.
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
- The water generally collects in the patchwork of depressions in the city plaza.
- a depression in the number of new homes being built
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