Depression vs. Desperate
Depressionnoun
(psychology) In psychotherapy and psychiatry, a state of mind producing serious, long-term lowering of enjoyment of life or inability to visualize a happy future.
Depressionnoun
(geography) An area that is lower in topography than its surroundings.
Depressionnoun
(psychology) In psychotherapy and psychiatry, a period of unhappiness or low morale which lasts longer than several weeks and may include ideation of self-inflicted injury or suicide.
Depressionnoun
(meteorology) An area of lowered air pressure that generally brings moist weather, sometimes promoting hurricanes and tornadoes.
Depressionnoun
(economics) A period of major economic contraction.
Depressionnoun
Four consecutive quarters of negative, real GDP growth. See NBER.
Depressionnoun
The act of lowering or pressing something down.
Depressionnoun
A lowering, in particular a reduction in a particular biological variable or the function of an organ, in contrast to elevation.
Depressionnoun
The act of depressing.
Depressionnoun
The state of being depressed; a sinking.
Depressionnoun
A falling in of the surface; a sinking below its true place; a cavity or hollow; as, roughness consists in little protuberances and depressions.
Depressionnoun
Humiliation; abasement, as of pride.
Depressionnoun
Dejection; despondency; lowness.
Depressionnoun
Diminution, as of trade, etc.; inactivity; dullness.
Depressionnoun
The angular distance of a celestial object below the horizon.
Depressionnoun
The operation of reducing to a lower degree; - said of equations.
Depressionnoun
A method of operating for cataract; couching. See Couch, v. t., 8.
Depressionnoun
a mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity
Depressionnoun
a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment
Depressionnoun
a sunken or depressed geological formation
Depressionnoun
sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy
Depressionnoun
a time period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic depression and mass unemployment
Depressionnoun
an air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation;
Depressionnoun
a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention
Depressionnoun
a concavity in a surface produced by pressing;
Depressionnoun
angular distance below the horizon (especially of a celestial object)
Depressionnoun
pushing down;
Desperateadjective
In dire need of something.
Desperateadjective
Being filled with, or in a state of despair; hopeless.
Desperateadjective
Without regard to danger or safety; reckless; furious.
Desperateadjective
Beyond hope; causing despair; extremely perilous; irretrievable.
Desperateadjective
Extreme, in a bad sense; outrageous.
Desperateadjective
Extremely intense.
Desperateadjective
Without hope; given to despair; hopeless.
Desperateadjective
Beyond hope; causing despair; extremely perilous; irretrievable; past cure, or, at least, extremely dangerous; as, a desperate disease; desperate fortune.
Desperateadjective
Proceeding from, or suggested by, despair; without regard to danger or safety; reckless; furious; as, a desperate effort.
Desperateadjective
Extreme, in a bad sense; outrageous; - used to mark the extreme predominance of a bad quality.
Desperatenoun
One desperate or hopeless.
Desperatenoun
a person who is frightened and in need of help;
Desperateadjective
arising from or marked by despair or loss of hope;
Desperateadjective
desperately determined;
Desperateadjective
(of persons) dangerously reckless or violent as from urgency or despair;
Desperateadjective
showing extreme courage; especially of actions courageously undertaken in desperation as a last resort;
Desperateadjective
showing extreme urgency or intensity especially because of great need or desire;
Desperateadjective
fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless;
Desperateadjective
feeling or showing a hopeless sense that a situation is so bad as to be impossible to deal with
Desperateadjective
(of an act) tried in despair or when everything else has failed
Desperateadjective
(of a situation) extremely serious or dangerous
Desperateadjective
(of a person) violent or dangerous
Desperateadjective
very bad
Desperateadjective
(of a person) having a great need or desire for something
