EGAVE

depressive

About 3.90 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Causing depression; dispiriting.
  2. adjective Affected by depression, depressed; dispirited; melancholic.
  3. adjective Relating to or characteristic of depression.
  4. noun A person suffering from depression.

Similar words

depressing saddening gloomy sad depressed mope despondent disheartening dispiriting discouraging

Often followed by

symptoms disorder illness disorders psychosis episode episodes and position states

Word family

depressively depressives

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