51³Ō¹Ļ

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depressive

[dih-pres-iv]

adjective

  1. tending to cause depression.

    depressive environmental factors.

  2. characterized by depression, especially mental depression.



noun

  1. a person having or affected with a depressive illness.

depressive

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adjective

  1. tending to depress; causing depression

  2. psychol tending to be subject to periods of depression See also manic-depressive

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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±šĖˆ±č°ł±š²õ²õ¾±±¹±š±ō²ā adverb
  • »å±šĖˆ±č°ł±š²õ²õ¾±±¹±š²Ō±š²õ²õ noun
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51³Ō¹Ļ History and Origins

Origin of depressive1

First recorded in 1610–20; depress + -ive
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Landy concluded Wilson suffered from a schizoid personality with manic depressive features — introverted, painfully shy, unable to show emotion.

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"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.

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His 1967 paper, titled ā€œThe 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.

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After four weeks, bot users showed significant reductions in their symptoms – including a 51% reduction in depressive symptoms - and reported a level of trust and collaboration akin to a human therapist.

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Messy, depressive and defiant, it even appears to have told the hair team to throw away their combs.

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