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depression
noun as in low spirits; despair
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abasement, abjection, blahs, bleakness, bummer, cheerlessness, dejection, desolation, desperation, despondency, discouragement, dispiritedness, distress, dole, dolefulness, dolor, downheartedness, dreariness, dullness, dumps, ennui, gloom, gloominess, heavyheartedness, hopelessness, lowness, melancholia, melancholy, misery, mortification, qualm, sadness, sorrow, trouble, unhappiness, vapors, woefulness, worry
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abjectness, blue funk, disconsolation, heaviness of heart, lugubriosity, the blues
noun as in economic decline
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bankruptcy, bust, crash, crisis, deflation, dislocation, downturn, drop, failure, inactivity, inflation, overproduction, panic, paralysis, recession, retrenchment, sag, slide, slowness, slump, stagflation, stagnation, unemployment
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Example Sentences
CTE, which can only be diagnosed after death, is a severe neurodegenerative disease that can cause dementia, violent mood swings, loss of motor control and depression.
He pointed to a transcranial magnetic stimulation device, a small handheld machine that has been proven effective in treating depression by boosting helpful brain activity and reducing harmful brain patterns.
Another woman named Martine said she had seen her daughter Lilou, who took her life aged 14, watching videos of people talking about depression and worse.
He never felt that he could turn to anyone close to him to work through feelings of loneliness and bouts of depression.
Then, after giving birth, she sunk into depression, struggling with her mental and physical health, a time she describes as the "the lowest point in her life".
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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