depressive

Speech parts

1. depressive - Noun

2. depressive - Adjective

Meaning

Able or tending to depress or cast down.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

black down blue dark depressed sad oppressive sorry miserable melancholy bleak dismal gloomy depressing discouraging

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Antonyms

jolly fiesta carnival good great amazing

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Hypernyms

sufferer sick person diseased person

Hyponyms

melancholic melancholiac

Phrases with the word

depressive suicidal black metal manic-depressive disorder depressive disorders depressive episode depressive episodes depressive illnesses

Examples

I am a smiling depressive. Trisha Goddard

I think everybody, no matter how rich or poor, how young or old, has a phase in his life when he's depressive. It's reality. Not a lot of people want to talk about it. Most people rather hide that fact, but it's just one of the facts of life that absolutely fascinates me. Chris Cornell

I'm constantly having to be vigilant with a depressive tendency, an addictive tendency. Patrick Marber

Alright, so I'm a manic depressive. What do you want from me? Claire Forlani

Sometimes you can know too much. A lot of brainy people like Stephen Fry are quite depressive. Karl Pilkington

I was a depressive and self-destructive alcoholic, but I was lucky enough to meet the program of Alcoholics Anonymous and be rescued by it 15 years ago. José José

Close letter words and terms

depressionless depressionlike depressionogenic depressive black metal depressive disorder depressive disorders