depressive
Americanadjective
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tending to cause depression.
depressive environmental factors.
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characterized by depression, especially mental depression.
noun
adjective
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tending to depress; causing depression
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psychol tending to be subject to periods of depression See also manic-depressive
Other Word Forms
- depressively adverb
- depressiveness noun
- nondepressive adjective
- nondepressively adverb
- overdepressive adjective
- overdepressively adverb
- overdepressiveness noun
- postdepressive adjective
- undepressive adjective
- undepressively adverb
- undepressiveness noun
Etymology
Origin of depressive
Example Sentences
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Old Hunter, an ex-police detective now working in private security, disturbs Chen’s depressive apathy with a request that he help find a man called X, a former philosophy professor who ran afoul of authorities.
Overall, the findings showed that exercise led to moderate reductions in depressive symptoms compared with no treatment.
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Compared with those who did not recover sleep on weekends, this group showed a 41 percent lower risk of depressive symptoms.
From Science Daily
Of these participants, 259 had schizophrenia and 177 had affective disorders that included bipolar disorder and major depressive disorder with psychosis.
From Science Daily
Patients living with major depressive disorder, including those who have not improved with commonly prescribed antidepressants, may benefit from short-term nitrous oxide treatment, according to a large meta-analysis led by the University of Birmingham.
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