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depressive
[dih-pres-iv]
adjective
tending to cause depression.
depressive environmental factors.
characterized by depression, especially mental depression.
noun
a person having or affected with a depressive illness.
depressive
/ »åÉŖĖ±č°łÉ²õÉŖ±¹ /
adjective
tending to depress; causing depression
psychol tending to be subject to periods of depression See also manic-depressive
Other 51³Ō¹Ļ Forms
- depressively adverb
- depressiveness noun
- nondepressive adjective
- nondepressively adverb
- overdepressive adjective
- overdepressively adverb
- overdepressiveness noun
- postdepressive adjective
- undepressive adjective
- undepressively adverb
- undepressiveness noun
- »å±šĖ±č°ł±š²õ²õ¾±±¹±š±ō²ā adverb
- »å±šĖ±č°ł±š²õ²õ¾±±¹±š²Ō±š²õ²õ noun
51³Ō¹Ļ History and Origins
Origin of depressive1
Example Sentences
Landy concluded Wilson suffered from a schizoid personality with manic depressive features ā introverted, painfully shy, unable to show emotion.
"I have bipolar type 2 and tend to go into depressive episodes, if it's a really bad episode it leads to me not being aware of what I'm doing," she says.
His 1967 paper, titled āThe Biochemistry of Affective Disorders,ā reviewed studies of reserpine, iproniazid, and other recently discovered drugs, and proposed that low levels of a different neurotransmitter, serotonin, could underlie depressive illness.
After four weeks, bot users showed significant reductions in their symptoms ā including a 51% reduction in depressive symptoms - and reported a level of trust and collaboration akin to a human therapist.
Messy, depressive and defiant, it even appears to have told the hair team to throw away their combs.
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