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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | belief in bad outcome |
| Synonyms: | cynicism, dark side, dejection, depression, despair, despondency, dim view, distrust, dyspepsia, expectation of worst, gloom, gloominess, gloomy outlook, glumness, grief, hopelessness, low spirits, melancholy, sadness, unhappiness |
| Antonyms: | confidence, optimism, trust |
| Main Entry: | pothole |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | chuckhole |
| Synonyms: | cavity, crater, depression, dip, fracture, gap, hole, pit, pocket, rut, split |
| Main Entry: | recess |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | niche, corner |
| Synonyms: | alcove, ambush, angle, apse, bay, break, carrel, cavity, cell, closet, cove, cranny, crutch, crypt, cubicle, dent, depression, depths, embrasure, fork, heart, hiding place, hole, hollow, indentation, mouth, nook, opening, oriel, penetralia, reaches, retreat, secret place, slot, socket |
| Main Entry: | recession |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | reversal of action; reduction of business activity |
| Synonyms: | bad times, bankruptcy, big trouble, bottom-out, bust, collapse, decline, deflation, depression, downturn, hard times, inflation, rainy days, shakeout, slide, slump, stagnation, unemployment |
| Notes: | a choir entering a church is a procession; leaving is a recession |
| Antonyms: | advance, inflation |
| Main Entry: | sag |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | drop, decline |
| Synonyms: | basin, cant, concavity, depression, dip, distortion, downslide, downswing, downtrend, downturn, droop, fall, fall-off, hollow, list, settling, sink, sinkage, sinkhole, sinking, slant, slip, slump, tilt |
| Antonyms: | increase, rise |
| Main Entry: | slump |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | decline, failure |
| Synonyms: | bad period, bad times, blight, blue devils, blue funk, bottom, bust, collapse, crash, depreciation, depression, descent, dip, downer, downslide, downswing, downtrend, downturn, drop, dumps, fall, falling-off, funk, hard times, letdown, low, rainy days, recession, reverse, rut, sag, slide, slip, stagnation, the skids, trough |
| Antonyms: | blessing, boon, increase, success |
| Main Entry: | sorrow |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extreme upset, grief |
| Synonyms: | affliction, agony, anguish, bad news, big trouble, blow, blues, care, catastrophe, dejection, depression, distress, dolor, grieving, hardship, heartache, heartbreak, lamenting, melancholy, misery, misfortune, mourning, pain, rain*, regret, remorse, repentance, rue, sadness, suffering, trial, tribulation, trouble, unhappiness, weeping, woe, worry, wretchedness |
| Antonyms: | happiness, joy, relief |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | trench |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ditch, channel dug in earth |
| Synonyms: | arroyo, canal, cut, depression, dike, drain, drill, dugout, earthwork, entrenchment, excavation, fosse, foxhole, furrow, gorge, gulch, gully, gutter, hollow, main, moat, pit, rut, sink, trough, tube, waterway |
| Main Entry: | valley |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hollow in the land |
| Synonyms: | basin, bottom, canyon, channel, coulee, dale, dell, depression, dingle, glen, gorge, lowland, notch, plain, swale, trough, vale |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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