depressive
UK/dɪˈpɹɛsɪv/
depressive adjective: causing depression; dispiriting.
Adjective
depressive (comparative more depressive, superlative most depressive)
- Causing depression; dispiriting.
- Affected by depression, depressed; dispirited; melancholic.
- Relating to or characteristic of depression.
Noun
depressive (plural depressives)
- A person suffering from depression.
- Synonyms:
- depresso
depressive meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Gujarati and Nepali
depressive in Hindi
- अवसादग्रस्तता
depressive in Tamil
- உளச் சோர்வுடையோர்
depressive in Gujarati
- ડિપ્રેસિવ
depressive in Nepali
- डिप्रेसिभ
Examples of depressive in a sentence
- With the global financial crisis still hitting hard, the air du temps today is a countrywide depressive mood.
- In the United States, major depressive disorder is an off-label indication for clomipramine, but in various other countries, it is an approved indication.
- Our recent discovery of a blog dedicated to “depressive black metal” We guess the music sounds neat.
Synonyms of depressive
Forms of depressive
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more depressive |
| superlative | most depressive |
| Noun | |
| plural | depressives |
Origin of depressive
From French dépressif or Medieval Latin depressivus. By surface analysis, depress + -ive.
Words formed from depressive
- antidepressive
- anxiodepressive
- cardiodepressive
- depressive black metal
- depressive disorder
- depressively
- depressiveness
- depressive personality disorder
- depressive realism
- depressive suicidal black metal
- depressivity
- immunodepressive
- major depressive disorder
- manic-depressive
- manic depressive
- neurodepressive
- nondepressive
- overdepressive
- persistent depressive disorder
- postdepressive
- prodepressive
- subdepressive
- vasodepressive
Phrases with depressive
Words that rhyme with depressive
- incessive
- progressive
- aggressive
- ingressive
- oppressive
- egressive
- essive
- expressive
- impressive
- obsessive
- possessive
- recessive
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- successive
- accessive
- caressive
- concessive
- degressive
- digressive
- double possessive
- passive-aggressive
- pressive
- regressive
- retrogressive
- transgressive
- abessive
- addressive
- adessive
- alloaggressive
- allosuppressive
- antessive
- antidepressive
- antiexpressive
- antioppressive
- antiprogressive
- antirepressive
- anxiodepressive
- atheroprogressive
- atherosuppressive
- autogressive
- autoregressive
- autorepressive
- brogressive
- cardiodepressive
- cardiosuppressive
- compressive
- concrescive
- confessive
- congressive
- corepressive
- crescive
- decompressive
- derepressive
- dispossessive
- effervescive
- excessive
- exessive
- fauxgressive
- fibrosuppressive
- future perfect progressive
- future progressive
Questions about depressive
- What does depressive mean?
- Depressive means causing depression; dispiriting.
- What is depressive in Hindi?
- Depressive in Hindi is अवसादग्रस्तता. See Depressive meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is depressive?
- Depressive can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce depressive?
- Depressive is pronounced /dɪˈpɹɛsɪv/ (UK).
Words near depressive in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: depressive (page history and authors); depressive (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); depressive (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); depressive (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); depressive (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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