Depression
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- noun
- /dɪˈprɛʃən/
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Gran Depresión
- Yet for the first time since the Great Depression, this productivity performance failed to produce new jobs.
- Great Depression
- Depression era
- 1930s Depression
She went on to say that talking was the Great Depression pastime.
- She went on to say that talking was the Great Depression pastime.
- And, you know, obviously the decade ended with a global depression.
- It is short term, real pain, recession, depression, severe distortions of the economy.
- It would be a miserable, miserable depression.
- So we will be in a some would argue we would be in a Great Depression.
- But maybe doing a Great Depression to some extent, but not otherwise.
- If you want depression, doom and despair, vote for Sleepy Joe Biden.
Examples
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Had to sell off some, of course, when the Depression hit, and then the dry times.
Fiction book (1992) -
Bubba and Zeyda serving the first pasteurized milk to the boarders, through the war years when we didn't have any meat, through the Depression when we didn't have anything.
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A little bit less now on account of the Depression, but it will do.
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Now during the Depression, folks, that was a sure sign of wealth.
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Well, I had read enough history about the Depression to know the consequences.
Academic text (2011) -
It was the height of the Depression.
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The global economy was still mired in a depression that had begun more than three years earlier.
Academic text (2011) -
United States history of the 1930s and 40s is framed by the Great Depression and World War II.
Academic text (2015) -
The unprecedented severity of the depression spurred a flurry of substantive bankruptcy law reforms in the early 1930s.
Academic text (2017) -
The Great Depression caused widespread unemployment and hardship for millions of families.
Synonyms
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A severe world economic crisis in the 1930s that caused mass unemployment
Compounds
- Specialized
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A serious mental illness doctors diagnose that causes long deep sadness and loss of interest and often needs treatment
- Archaic
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A mental illness with times of very high energy and times of very low mood
- Specialized
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A long time of deep sadness when someone cannot sit still and is easily annoyed
- Specialized
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Severe depression where a person loses touch with reality and has hallucinations or false beliefs
- Specialized
A long time feeling sad and low in energy for at least two years
- Specialized
A long time of feeling very sad because of changes in the brain, not because of life events
- Specialized
A deep sadness in babies who lose their mother or main caregiver and get little care
- Specialized
A depression where a person cannot feel pleasure in usual activities
- Archaic
A long, serious time of deep sadness and loss of interest that starts in middle age or after menopause
- Archaic
A long time of deep sadness and worry without false beliefs or hearing things that are not there
- Specialized
A period of deep sadness and low energy after a stressful life event
- Formal
A long serious feeling of sadness with very slow movement and little energy that makes starting things hard
- Specialized
A long illness of deep sadness and low energy without periods of very high mood
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Depression comes from the parts de- ('down') and press (like the English word 'press' or 'pressure'), so it originally meant 'pressed down'. That's why the Great Depression is the name for the 1930s when the economy and many people's lives were badly 'pressed down' by job loss and poverty.