- 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
- a sunken or depressed geological formation
- sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy
- a period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic depression and mass unemployment
- an air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation;
"a low moved in over night bringing sleet and snow"
- a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention
- a concavity in a surface produced by pressing;
"he left the impression of his fingers in the soft mud"
- angular distance below the horizon (especially of a celestial object)
- pushing down;
"depression of the space bar on the typewriter"
