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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