See Also: Depression(medicine)
Depression(money)
Depression(finance)
Depression(health)
depression(dictionary)
depression(encyclopedia)
depression(dictionary)
Depression, the(dictionary)
Great Depression(encyclopedia)
spreading depression(medicine)

depression (oh)



[U and C] a) a medical condition that makes you very unhappy and anxious and often prevents you from living a normal life
::women who suffer from post-natal depression (=that sometimes happens after the birth of a baby)
b) a feeling of sadness that makes you think there is no hope for the future
::Lucy's mood was one of deep depression .
the (Great) Depression
the period during the 1930s when there was not much business activity and not many jobs
[U and C] a long period during which there is very little business activity and a lot of people do not have jobs
-see also recession recession
::the devastating effects of economic depression
[C] a part of a surface that is lower than the other parts
::depressions in the ground
[C] technical a mass of air under low pressure, that usually causes rain