depressive
IPA: dɪprˈɛsɪv
noun
- A person suffering from depression.
adjective
- Causing depression; dispiriting.
- Affected by depression, depressed; dispirited; melancholic.
- Relating to or characteristic of depression.
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Examples of "depressive" in Sentences
- The depressive ... but the depressive is the very opposite of the hollow man!
- I could never be described as a depressive person, but I seem to be doing a good impression of it this season.
- This chapter is devoted to a discussion of the specific set of behaviors and feelings that make up what we call the depressive syndrome.
- I suppose I've made some personal progress in admitting openly that I am depressive, which is to say I have not been formally diagnosed as such, but I suspect I could be.
- Nolen-Hoeksema’s research clearly shows that this kind of thinking—which she calls depressive rumination—quickly deteriorates into a vicious downward spiral that exacerbates the severity and length of depression.
- Ladislav von Meduna started seizure therapy by intravenous injection of cardiazol (in depressive states), a therapy that was abandoned when in 1938 the Italians Cerletti and Bini introduced electric convulsive therapy, E.C.T., for severe mental states.
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