depressive
Causing depression; dispiritingCausing depression; dispiriting.
Recorded US: Speaker: Flame, not lame Recorder: Flame, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
» Mennad suffered a major depressive disorder.
OsoHombre · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
3 sensesCausing depression; dispiriting.
Affected by depression, depressed; dispirited; melancholic.
Relating to or characteristic of depression.
Examples
5 sentencesMennad suffered a major depressive disorder.
I was in one of my deeply depressive states.
Mennad had a depressive episode.
Sami was depressive.
This site is one of the most depressive sites I've ever been.
ruЭтот сайт – один из самых депрессивных, где я только был. — Ooneykcall
Translations
4 languagesOrigin
From French dépressif or Medieval Latin depressivus. By surface analysis, depress + -ive.From French dépressif or Medieval Latin depressivus. By surface analysis, depress + -ive.
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Forms
more depressive, most depressive| Comparative | more depressive Lesson |
|---|---|
| Superlative | most depressive Lesson |
regular
Word family
17 related wordsLessons for this word
2 lessons- A2Comparatives — Because it has a comparative form
- A2Superlatives — Because it has a superlative form
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.