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1depressive
adjective de·pres·sive \di-ˈpre-siv, dē-\
medical : of or relating to the medical condition of depression
Full Definition of DEPRESSIVE
1
: tending to depress
2
: of, relating to, marked by, or affected by psychological depression <depressive symptoms> <a depressive patient>
— de·pres·sive·ly adverb
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First Known Use of DEPRESSIVE
1620
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- Synonyms
- black, bleak, cheerless, chill, Cimmerian, cloudy, cold, comfortless, dark, darkening, depressing, gloomy, desolate, dire, disconsolate, dismal, drear, dreary, dreich [chiefly Scottish], elegiac (also elegiacal), forlorn, funereal, glum, godforsaken, gray (also grey), lonely, lonesome, lugubrious, miserable, morbid, morose, murky, plutonian, saturnine, sepulchral, solemn, somber (or sombre), sullen, sunless, tenebrific, tenebrous, wretched
Rhymes with DEPRESSIVE
2depressive
noun
Definition of DEPRESSIVE
: one who is affected with or prone to psychological depression
First Known Use of DEPRESSIVE
1937
Rhymes with DEPRESSIVE
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