/ Thesaurus / G Synonyms of great depression Find synonyms for: Noun1. Great Depressionusage: the economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash in 1929 and continuing through the 1930s2. Depression, Great Depressionusage: a period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic depression and mass unemploymentWordNet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. Related Content Daily Word Quiz: inutiae Analogy of the Day: Today’s Analogy Spelling Bee: Today’s Spelling Bee Frequently Misspelled Words Frequently Mispronounced Words Easily Confused Words Writing & Language