de-pression

英 ['dəpr'eʃən] 美 ['dəpr'eʃən]

• 抑郁

英英释义

名词 depression:

1. a mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity

2. a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment

3. a sunken or depressed geological formation

4. sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy

5. a period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic depression and mass unemployment

6. an air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation

7. a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention

8. a concavity in a surface produced by pressing

9. angular distance below the horizon (especially of a celestial object)

10. pushing down