• pushing down; "Depression of the space bar on the typewriter"
• 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; "he left the impression of his fingers in the soft mud"
• 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 low moved in over night bringing sleet and snow"
• a time period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic Depression and mass unemployment

'Depression' in other languages