Antonyms for depression
dɪˈprɛʃ ənde·pres·sion

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1. depression

   Antonyms:
   raising, elevation, exaltation, promotion, preferment, amelioration, encouragement, rallying, rising, eminence, mound, prominence

   Synonyms:
   lowering, degradation, debasement, dejection, discouragement, hollow, valley, dip

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1. • Affective Disorder
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Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:3.3 / 3 votes

1. depressionnoun

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

   Antonyms:
   elation

   Synonyms:
   depressive disorder, low, impression, economic crisis, imprint, slump, natural depression, clinical depression

2. depression, slump, economic crisisnoun

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

   Antonyms:
   elation

   Synonyms:
   depressive disorder, low, impression, economic crisis, slack, falling off, imprint, falloff, slump, natural depression, drop-off, clinical depression

3. natural depression, depressionnoun

   a sunken or depressed geological formation

   Antonyms:
   elation

   Synonyms:
   depressive disorder, low, impression, economic crisis, imprint, slump, natural depression, clinical depression

4. depressionnoun

   sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy

   Antonyms:
   elation

   Synonyms:
   depressive disorder, low, impression, economic crisis, imprint, slump, natural depression, clinical depression

5. Depression, Great Depressionnoun

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

   Antonyms:
   elation

   Synonyms:
   depressive disorder, low, impression, economic crisis, imprint, slump, natural depression, clinical depression

6. low, depressionnoun

   an air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation

   "a low moved in over night bringing sleet and snow"

   Antonyms:
   elation

   Synonyms:
   first gear, low, impression, economic crisis, low gear, depressive disorder, imprint, slump, first, natural depression, clinical depression

7. depressive disorder, clinical depression, depressionnoun

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

   Antonyms:
   elation

   Synonyms:
   depressive disorder, low, impression, economic crisis, imprint, slump, natural depression, clinical depression

8. depression, impression, imprintnoun

   a concavity in a surface produced by pressing

   "he left the impression of his fingers in the soft mud"

   Antonyms:
   elation

   Synonyms:
   impression, economic crisis, mental picture, imprint, feeling, natural depression, effect, opinion, clinical depression, low, embossment, printing, notion, stamp, depressive disorder, slump, picture, belief

9. depressionnoun

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

   Antonyms:
   elation

   Synonyms:
   depressive disorder, low, impression, economic crisis, imprint, slump, natural depression, clinical depression

10. depressionnoun

    pushing down

    "depression of the space bar on the typewriter"

    Antonyms:
    elation

    Synonyms:
    depressive disorder, low, impression, economic crisis, imprint, slump, natural depression, clinical depression

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1. depressionnoun

   Synonyms:
   cavity, hollow, indentation, concavity, dent, dejection, discouragement, despondency, vapors, gloom, inactivity, dullness

How to use depression in a sentence?

1. Ganga Sagar Pant:

   If you always look down and dark, you have possibility of going to depression; you can change yourself towards light and colorful lives by looking up. Look at the sky, stars, galaxies, the infinity of the Universe..., you will start shining and twinkling as you are truly one among those!

2. Brooke Fiske:

   To me, the length of time that Sikander Imran serves in prison is n’t what’s important, i think that it’s important that people know that if they’re dealing with depression, before they do something, they should reach out and get help.

3. Barreto Fetterman:

   I don’t have any regrets because I believe that I had a responsibility to do the debate, but after that point, to me, that was where the depression really started to set in.

4. Pamela Burrell:

   I see myself in an apartment some day soon in the future. Would love to have my own restaurant. Right now I just want to be here. I just want to be sane, healthy, just moving along in the process, most of us, if we went through our life falling apart, losing our home, losing our children, going through tremendous depression and hopelessness, we're not the same people.

5. Richard Fairbank:

   Obviously, the economy is something of a wild card, perhaps the consumer economy is doing okay, but there is a depression in the energy economy and it feels like there is a general malaise if not a recession looming in the industrial and manufacturing economies.

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