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depressionlike

depressionlike adjective: resembling a depression.

Adjective

depressionlike (comparative more depressionlike, superlative most depressionlike)

  1. Resembling a depression
    • El Centro has the highest unemployment rate in the nation, a depressionlike 22.6 percent.2009 March 4, David Leonhardt, “Job Losses Show Breadth of a Recession”, in New York Times

Forms of depressionlike

comparativemore depressionlike
superlativemost depressionlike

Origin of depressionlike

From depression + -like.

Questions about depressionlike

What does depressionlike mean?
Depressionlike means resembling a depression.
What part of speech is depressionlike?
Depressionlike is an adjective.

Words near depressionlike in the dictionary

  1. depressionary
  2. depressionism
  3. depressionist
  4. depressionists
  5. depressionless
  6. depressionlike
  7. depressionogenic
  8. depressions
  9. depressive
  10. depressive black metal
  11. depressive disorder

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