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depressional

depressional adjective: of or pertaining to psychological depression.

Adjective

depressional (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to psychological depression.
    • It’s only right that the tide of inspirational books should yield to the occasional depressional one — for every humorist, a dishumorist, a man who runs his nails down the blackboard and makes everyone’s hair stand up, though we humorists would note that you have to work hard to get a laugh and...2008 March 16, Garrison Keillor, “Woe Be Gone”, in New York Times
  2. Of or pertaining to a physical depression.
    • Those natural depressional wetlands are comparable to those occurring in the SE and NW case-study areas...2006, Russell S. Harmon, Carol M. Wicks, Derek C. Ford, Perspectives on Karst geomorphology, hydrology, and geochemistry, page 229

Origin of depressional

From depression + -al.

Questions about depressional

What does depressional mean?
Depressional means of or pertaining to psychological depression.
What part of speech is depressional?
Depressional is an adjective.

Words near depressional in the dictionary

  1. depressingness
  2. depression
  3. Depression cake
  4. Depression cakes
  5. Depression glass
  6. depressional
  7. depressionary
  8. depressionism
  9. depressionist
  10. depressionists
  11. depressionless

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