depression
US: /dɪˈpɹɛʃən/
UK: /dɪpɹˈɛʃən/
UK: /dɪpɹˈɛʃən/
English Vietnamese dictionary
depression
- sự giảm, sự hạ; vlđc. miền áp suất thấp; (toán kinh tế) sự suy thoái
- d. of order (of differential equation) sự giảm cấp (của một phương
- trình vi phân)
Advanced English dictionary
+ noun
1 [U] a medical condition in which a person feels very sad and anxious and often has physical SYMPTOMS such as being unable to sleep, etc: clinical depression + She suffered from severe depression after losing her job. + post-natal depression
2 [U, C] the state of feeling very sad and without hope: There was a feeling of gloom and depression in the office when the news of the job cuts was announced.
3 [C, U] a period when there is little economic activity and many people are poor or without jobs: The country was in the grip of (an) economic depression. + the great Depression of the 1930s
4 [C] (written) a part of a surface that is lower than the parts around it
Synonym: HOLLOW
Rainwater collects in shallow depressions on the ground.
5 [C] (technical) a weather condition in which the pressure of the air becomes lower, often causing rain: an atmospheric depression moving east from the Atlantic
Compare: ANTICYCLONE
Thesaurus dictionary
n.
1 indentation, dent, dimple, impression, pit, hollow, recess, cavity, concavity, dip:
When the box fell, its corner left a small depression in the top of the metal cabinet.
2 dejection, despair, gloom, downheartedness, sadness, melancholy, discouragement, despondency, gloominess, glumness, the blues, unhappiness; Colloq the dumps:
A general feeling of depression came over us at the doctor's words.
3 recession, slump, (economic) decline, downturn, US and Canadian bust:
The analysts are unable to predict accurately either booms or depressions.
Collocation dictionary
1 unhappiness/mental illness
ADJ.
black, deep, serious, severe | acute, chronic | mild | clinical | manic | post-natal
QUANT.
bout, fit, period
The actor says he suffers frequent bouts of depression. In a fit of depression, she threw away all her favourite books. A period of acute depression can sometimes follow childbirth.
VERB + DEPRESSION
develop, fall into, go into, succumb to
She fell into a black depression and refused to leave her room.
| experience, have, suffer (from)
She was diagnosed as having clinical depression.
| be treated for
His wife had left him and he was being treated for depression.
| come out of, get over
She was gradually coming out of her depression.
| cause, lead to
Bereavement can often lead to depression.
| relieve, treat
a new drug used to treat depression
DEPRESSION + VERB
deepen | lift
Her depression has lifted now.
PREP.
in ~
He may have killed himself in depression.
| with ~
He's been off work for months with depression.
PHRASES
(a) cause for depression
These results should not be a cause for depression.
| the depths of depression
I was in the depths of depression after receiving my exam results.
| feelings of depression, the onset of depression
The onset of depression often follows a traumatic event.
| a state of depression
He was in a state of acute depression.
| symptoms of depression, treatment for depression
She had been receiving medical treatment for depression. > Special page at ILLNESS
2 period of reduced economic activity
ADJ.
great, major, serious, severe | economic
The country is experiencing a severe economic depression.
VERB + DEPRESSION
be in the grip of, experience | go into
The housing market has gone into depression.
| face
DEPRESSION + VERB
deepen
The depression seems to be deepening.
| end
PREP.
during/in a/the ~
Many people lost their jobs in the great depression of the 1930s.
PHRASES
the depths of a depression, a period of depression
periods of severe economic depression
3 hollow part in the surface of sth
ADJ.
shallow, slight | deep
PREP.
~ in, ~ on
From the air, the photos show a shallow depression on the planet's surface.
Concise English dictionary
depressions-eʃn
noun
+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
+a sunken or depressed geological formation
+sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy
+a period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic depression and mass unemployment
+an air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation
+a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention
+a concavity in a surface produced by pressing
+angular distance below the horizon (especially of a celestial object)
+pushing down
