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depressive
[ dih-pres-iv ]
adjective
- tending to cause depression:
depressive environmental factors.
- characterized by depression, especially mental depression.
noun
- a person having or affected with a depressive illness.
depressive
/ dɪˈprɛsɪv /
adjective
- tending to depress; causing depression
- psychol tending to be subject to periods of depression See also manic-depressive
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Derived Forms
- deˈpressively, adverb
- deˈpressiveness, noun
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Other Words From
- de·pres·sive·ly adverb
- de·pres·sive·ness noun
- non·de·pres·sive adjective
- non·de·pres·sive·ly adverb
- o·ver·de·pres·sive adjective
- o·ver·de·pres·sive·ly adverb
- o·ver·de·pres·sive·ness noun
- post·de·pres·sive adjective
- un·de·pres·sive adjective
- un·de·pres·sive·ly adverb
- un·de·pres·sive·ness noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of depressive1
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Example Sentences
In his own words, he is “actually very manic depressive” and can feel the world moving past him.
Wilson said she was on the wrong dosage of medicine, and was having severe depressive mood swings.
She says one of her depressive swings left her suicidal during her freshman year.
Every two weeks he would visit patients suffering the gamut of depressive disorders.
Saint Laurent was at his best a genius, and at his worst a manic-depressive genius.
O direct (dhe common o) can nedher assume o, dhe servile ov o depressive (oo); nor u, hwich wood seem its partner in a dipthong.
For dhis rezon, goald must no longuer be robbed ov its depressive servile, wonce legally seen in gould.
This was the first triumphant conclusion, but afterward came reaction and a depressive doubt.
In the excited stage of manic-depressive insanity it is not uncommon to find that the memory is abnormally active.
Of the two terms (folie circulaire and manic-depressive insanity) the latter is the more correct.
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