Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Depression

Nouns
  • lowering etc. v.
  • depression
  • dip etc. (concavity) Concavity
  • abasement
  • detrusion
  • reduction. overthrow, overset, overturn
  • upset
  • prostration, subversion, precipitation. bow
  • courtesy, curtsy
  • genuflexion, genuflection, kowtow, obeisance, salaam.
Verbs
  • depress, lower, let down, take down, let down a peg, take down a peg
  • cast
  • let drop, let fall
  • sink, debase, bring low, abase, reduce, detrude, pitch, precipitate. overthrow, overturn, overset
  • upset, subvert, prostate, level, fell
  • cast down, take down, throw down, fling down, dash down, pull down, cut down, knock down, hew down
  • raze, raze to the ground, rase to the ground
  • trample in the dust, pull about one's ears. sit, sit down
  • couch, squat, crouch, stoop, bend, bow
  • courtesy, curtsy
  • bob, duck, dip, kneel
  • bend the knee, bow the knee, bend the head, bow the head
  • cower
  • recline etc. (be horizontal) Horizontality.
Adjectives
  • depressed etc. v.
  • at a low ebb
  • prostrate etc. (horizontal) Horizontality
  • detrusive.