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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
It is associated with symptoms including memory loss, depression and progressive dementia.
As someone who struggled with a severe panic disorder, general anxiety and depression, he needed a break from reading about politics, which had become a toxic part of his life.
“Go do the revolution, baby,” Bob says as Perfidia marches out the door, her postpartum depression urging her to prove that she’s more than an aching body shackled to a baby.
Hatton spoke about battling depression and in 2023 was the subject of a documentary in which he discussed his personal life and mental health issues.
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.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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