depressive
1de·pres·sive
adjective \di-ˈpre-siv, dē-\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
Examples of DEPRESSIVE
- <the depressive air of a dingy barroom where locals went to drown their sorrows>
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
nounDefinition 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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