Definitions For Depression
noun
- Pushing down
- Sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy
- A sunken or depressed geological formation
- Angular distance below the horizon (especially of a celestial object)
- A concavity in a surface produced by pressing
- A state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention
- A mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity
- A long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment
- An air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation
- A period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic depression and mass unemployment
- A state of feeling sad
- A serious medical condition in which a person feels very sad, hopeless, and unimportant and often is unable to live in a normal way
- A period of time in which there is little economic activity and many people do not have jobs
Is Depressions a Scrabble Word?
Words With Friends
YES
Scrabble US
YES
Scrabble UK
YES
English International (SOWPODS)
YES
Scrabble Global
YES
Enable1 Dictionary
YES
Points in Different Games
Scrabble
14
Words with Friends
16
The word Depression is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends
Examples of Depression in a Sentence
- She has been undergoing treatment for severe depression.
- Many people suffer from clinical depression for years before being diagnosed.
- After several years of an economic boom, it looks as though we may be heading toward a depression.