Dream Dictionary

Depression

To feel depressed in your dream, foretells of the coming of bad news.

Dictionary definition

  • n. 1: a mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity [ant: elation]
  • 2: a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment [syn: depression, slump, economic crisis]
  • 3: a sunken or depressed geological formation [syn: natural depression, depression] [ant: elevation, natural elevation]
  • 4: sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy
  • 5: a period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic depression and mass unemployment [syn: Depression, Great Depression]
  • 6: an air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation; "a low moved in over night bringing sleet and snow" [syn: low, depression]
  • 7: a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention [syn: depressive disorder, clinical depression, depression]
  • 8: a concavity in a surface produced by pressing; "he left the impression of his fingers in the soft mud" [syn: depression, impression, imprint]
  • 9: angular distance below the horizon (especially of a celestial object)
  • 10: pushing down; "depression of the space bar on the typewriter"