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Thesaurus entry: depression
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depression
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noun
1.
she seems to be suffering from depression
synonyms
: unhappiness, sadness, melancholy, melancholia, misery, sorrow, woe, gloom, despondency, low spirits, a heavy heart, despair, desolation, hopelessness; upset, tearfulness;
informal
the dumps, the doldrums, the blues, a funk, a blue funk;
Psychiatry
dysthymia, seasonal affective disorder, SAD.
2.
an economic depression
synonyms
: recession, slump, decline, downturn, standstill; stagnation; the Great Depression;
Economics
stagflation.
3.
a depression in the ground
synonyms
: hollow, indentation, dent, cavity, concavity, dip, pit, hole, sinkhole, trough, crater; basin, bowl.
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Thesaurus entry: symptomatic
The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus;
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...symptomatic • adjective they worried that her lethargy was symptomatic of depression synonyms : indicative, characteristic, suggestive, typical, representative, symbolic.
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