Sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy

Usage examples of depression.

The pain of parting from Lydia, and the pain of not knowing for sure what that parting meant, broke the grip of his anhedonic depression.

The archegonia are protected by being sunk in depressions of the disk or by a special two-lipped involucre.

But very often mothers of colicky babies experience exhaustion and defeat which sometimes can be followed by depression.

Except for occasional spells of depression he remained confident that he would achieve his goal - not by force and scarcely by winning a parliamentary majority, but by the means which had carried Schleicher and Papen to the top: by backstairs intrigue, a game that two could play.

Gerry Beauvais again sank into a deep depression and was unable to get out of bed for days.

It was the worst year of the Depression but Bedaux was spending good money for lodgings in small hotels and private homes.

Not the kind of depression that comes from stress at work, and grief, and marital difficulties, but biochemically induced stress, which would make the world seem bleak even in the most normal of times.

The bloodstone of the ring meshed into the central depression, meeting the blood-dampened metal with an electric crack.

It turned out to be a region of cantaloupe terrain where every depression was filled with nitrogen snow.

We must commit to exercise because inactive lifestyles contribute to weight gain, elevated blood fats, cardiovascular disease, cancer, reduced blood sugar regulation, and increased depression, memory loss, cognitive dysfunction, fatigue, and a host of other emotional and physical problems.

Aelia standing on the Clivus Victoriae alone, Sulla underwent his usual plummet into black depression during the hours following.

With the Dipylum as a starting-point, there is no difficulty in supposing that, in very ancient times, the Limnae extended to Colonus Agoraeus, to the east into the hollow which became a portion of the agora in the Ceramicus, and to the west into the depression between Colonus Agoraeus and the Hill of the Nymphs.

As his deportment was sober and honest, and his intentions harmless, he was always treated, by Constantia, with politeness, though his entrance always produced a momentary depression of her spirits.

In prescribing this drug, physicians are warned that Ritalin is contraindicated for patients with psychological problems such as depression, psychosis, or chronic fatigue.

When Beverly left the King Croesus, depression engulfed her again and she felt tempted to stop somewhere for a drink.