Synonyms

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depressing, adj. dejecting, discouraging, daunting, damping, disappointing, disheartening, dispiriting, depressive, depressant; saddening, cheerless, sad, melancholy, blue, heartbreaking; sorrowful, woeful, mournful, lachrymose, dolorous; distressing, painful, afflictive; dreary, bleak, gloomy, dismal, hopeless; black, somber, grave, heavy,

depression, n. 1. indentation, dent, dint, dimple, recess; hollow, concavity, cavity, pit, hole; dip, bowl, sink, sink hole, swallow, swallow hole.
2. downheartedness, low spirits, crestfallenness; sadness, melancholy, blues, doldrums. See - dejection.
3. (of the economy) recession, decline, slump, bad times, hard times; inactivity, slowdown, dullness, stagnation, paralysis, standstill; stagflation.

deprivation, n. 1. withholding, deprival, denial; dispossession, expropriation, Law. disseizin, appropriation, confiscation, seizure, taking away, Law. attachment; divesture, stripping, despoliation, spoliation.
2. privation, want, need, lack; loss, bereavement, hardship, distress.
3. removal, deposition, dismissal, ousting, expulsion.

deprive, v. 1. withhold, deny, refuse, debar, shut out.
2. remove, divest, strip, denude, despoil; dispossess, Law. disseize, expropriate, appropriate, confiscate, Law. attach, seize, commandeer; bereave, wrest from, wring from, take away; mulct, rob.

depth, n. 1. deepness, profoundness, profundity; complexity, intricacy, obscurity, abstruseness, reconditeness, esotericism.
2. gravity, weigh*, moment, importance, significance; seriousness, solemnity, sobriety.
3. sagacity, wisdom, understanding; awareness, perception, insight, intuition, sensitivity; discernment, perspicacity, astuteness, acumen, acuity, shrewdness, artfulness, subtlety.
4. pit, bottomless pit, bowels, bowels of the earth; gulf, abyss, chasm, cavity, hole, crevasse.
5. intensity, vividness, brilliancy, brightness; richness, strength, darkness.
6. depths a. midst, middle, innermost part, remotest part, womb; b. deep, deeps, ocean bottom, floor, bed, ground, Davy Jones's locker.
7. in depth thoroughly, extensively, comprehensively.

deputation, n. 1. appointment, designation, nomination; installation, investiture, induction, ordination; authorization, entrusting, empowering, charging; assignment, appropriation, relegation, devolvement.
2. delegates, delegation, embassy, legation; committee, subcommittee,

deputize, v. depute, commission, delegate; appoint, name, designate, nominate; charge, authorize, commit, entrust, empower, enable; consign, relegate, pass on, devolve.

deputy, n. 1. representative, delegate, commissary, surrogate; appointee, provost, spokesperson; ambassador, emissary, envoy, legate, agent, factor, messenger, minister; middleman, go-between, diplomat, intermediary, negotiator, negotiant; substitute, alternate, proxy, vice-regent, viceroy; lieutenant, assistant, operative, right hand person; functionary, commissioner, bureaucrat; consul, plenipotentiary.
-adj. 2. assistant, second-in-command, subordinate, associate; elected, appointed, designated, ordained.

derange, v. 1. disarrange, disorder, throw into disorder, disorganize, turn topsy-turvy, disjoint, disarray; upset, muss or muss up, mess or mess up; misar-range, put out of place, misplace, displace, dislocate; dishevel, rumple, ruffle, tousle, Chiefly Scot. Dial. touse; clutter, litter, scatter, shuffle; jumble, muddle, entangle.