Depression vs. Desperate — What's the Difference?

The act of depressing.

Feeling or showing a hopeless sense that a situation is so bad as to be impossible to deal with

The condition of being depressed.

(of a person) having a great need or desire for something

An area that is sunk below its surroundings; a hollow.

Having lost all hope; despairing.

The condition of feeling sad or despondent.

Marked by, arising from, or showing despair

A mood disorder characterized by persistent sadness or inability to experience pleasure combined with other symptoms including poor concentration, indecisiveness, sleep problems, changes in appetite, and feelings of guilt, helplessness, and hopelessness. Also called clinical depression, major depressive disorder.

Reckless or violent because of despair

A reduction in physiological vigor or activity

Undertaken out of extreme urgency or as a last resort

A lowering in amount, degree, or position

Nearly hopeless; critical

A period of drastic economic decline, characterized by decreasing aggregate output, falling prices, and rising unemployment.

Suffering or driven by great need or distress

A period of widespread poverty and high unemployment.

Extremely intense

Depression See Great Depression.

In dire need (of something); having a dire need or desire.

(Meteorology) A region of low barometric pressure.

Being filled with, or in a state of, despair; hopeless.

The angular distance below the horizontal plane through the point of observation.

Beyond hope, leaving little reason for hope; causing despair; extremely perilous.

(Astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial body below the horizon.

Involving or employing extreme measures, without regard to danger or safety; reckless due to hopelessness.

A state of mind producing serious, long-term lowering of enjoyment of life or inability to visualize a happy future.

Extremely bad; outrageous, shocking; intolerable.

A period of low morale or unhappiness (a period of experiencing the above-mentioned state of mind) which lasts longer than several weeks and may include ideation of self-inflicted injury or suicide.

Intense; extremely intense.

(geography) An area that is lower in topography than its surroundings.

A person in desperate circumstances or who is at the point of desperation, such as a down-and-outer, addict, etc.

(meteorology) An area of lowered air pressure that generally brings moist weather, sometimes promoting hurricanes and tornadoes.

Without hope; given to despair; hopeless.

(economics) A period of major economic contraction.

Beyond hope; causing despair; extremely perilous; irretrievable; past cure, or, at least, extremely dangerous; as, a desperate disease; desperate fortune.

Four consecutive quarters of negative, real GDP growth. See NBER.

Proceeding from, or suggested by, despair; without regard to danger or safety; reckless; furious; as, a desperate effort.

The act of lowering or pressing something down.

Extreme, in a bad sense; outrageous; - used to mark the extreme predominance of a bad quality.

A lowering, in particular a reduction in a particular biological variable or the function of an organ, in contrast to elevation.

One desperate or hopeless.

The act of depressing.

A person who is frightened and in need of help;

The state of being depressed; a sinking.

Arising from or marked by despair or loss of hope;

A falling in of the surface; a sinking below its true place; a cavity or hollow; as, roughness consists in little protuberances and depressions.

Desperately determined;

Humiliation; abasement, as of pride.

(of persons) dangerously reckless or violent as from urgency or despair;

Dejection; despondency; lowness.

Showing extreme courage; especially of actions courageously undertaken in desperation as a last resort;

Diminution, as of trade, etc.; inactivity; dullness.

Showing extreme urgency or intensity especially because of great need or desire;

The angular distance of a celestial object below the horizon.

Fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless;

The operation of reducing to a lower degree; - said of equations.

A mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity

A long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment

A sunken or depressed geological formation

Sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy

A time period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic depression and mass unemployment

An air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation;

A state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention

A concavity in a surface produced by pressing;

Angular distance below the horizon (especially of a celestial object)

Pushing down;