60 synonyms for depression such as credit squeeze, a blue funk, bad times, and credit crunch. Depression is a noun, and its antonyms are cheerfulness and boom.
A blue funk, a funk, a low, clinical depression, dejection, desolation, despair, despondency, disconsolateness, disconsolation, discouragement, dispiritedness, dolefulness, dolour, downheartedness, dysthymia, endogenous depression, gloom, gloominess, heavy-heartedness, hopelessness, low spirits, melancholia, melancholy, misery, moodiness, mopery, moroseness, one's black dog, pessimism, postnatal depression, reactive depression, sadness, sorrow, tearfulness, the blahs, the blues, the doldrums, the dumps, the megrims, the mopes, the slough of despond, unhappiness, upset, and woe.
Bad times, credit crunch, credit squeeze, decline, downturn, hard times, inactivity, paralysis, recession, slowdown, slump, stagflation, stagnation, and standstill.