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adj. Tending to depress or lower.

adj. Depressing; gloomy: "Americans entertained the depressive thought that they had ceased to be themselves” ( Lance Morrow).

adj. Of or relating to psychological depression.

n. A person suffering from psychological depression.

adj. Tending to produce depression; dispiriting; melancholy.

adj. Being depressed; dispirited; melancholic.

n. A person suffering from depression.

adj. Able or tending to depress or cast down.

Able or tending to depress or cast down.

n. someone suffering psychological depression

"This chapter is devoted to a discussion of the specific set of behaviors and feelings that make up what we call the depressive syndrome."

sick person    diseased person    sufferer   

melancholic    melancholiac   

depressiveness    depressively   

Progressive    aggressive    excessive    expressive    impressive    obsessive    oppressive    possessive    progressive    recessive   

premenstrual    delusional    hypomanic    psychotic    manic-depressive    schizophrenic    manic    flu-like    bipolar    post-traumatic