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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
Smith returned to California in “a bad mental spot” — depression runs in his family, he says — but he regained some stability working as a nurse and as a worship leader.
"Previous research has shown depression, anxiety, obesity and heatstroke are more prevalent in urban areas that lack access to shady tree canopy and green open spaces," said Croeser, from RMIT's Centre for Urban Research.
Chronic stress can inflict more serious damage to the immune system and make people more vulnerable to heart attacks, strokes, diabetes, infertility, clinical anxiety, depression and other ailments.
Certain conditions, such as schizophrenia or depression, as well as ADHD, impair working memory.
He was already out of the country in Mexico stretching his supply until he got back, and soon, his depression began to set in again.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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