Crossword clues for depressive
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Depressive \De*press"ive\, a. Able or tending to depress or cast down. -- De*press"ive*ness, n.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, from Latin depress-, past participle stem of deprimere (see depress) + -ive. In psychology, from 1905.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Causing depression; dispiriting. 2 Affected by depression, depressed; dispirited; melancholic. 3 Relative to, characteristic of depression. n. A person suffering from depression.
WordNet
adj. causing or suggestive of sorrow or gloom; "a gloomy outlook"; "gloomy news" [syn: depressing, gloomy, saddening]
n. someone suffering psychological depression
Wikipedia
Depressive may refer to:
- Major depressive disorder
- Dysthymia
- Minor depressive disorder
- Recurrent brief depression
- Depressive personality disorder
- Depression (mood)
Usage examples of "depressive".
Tell him a shipment has been held up at Candlepower station, acute depressive effect.
His absence of depressive symptoms or severe agitation precludes any suggestion of medication at this time and his general attitude indicates that he would strongly oppose it.
The effect of the sudden intake of stimulants and depressives on the horsemen and Ho replicas was the most startling feature of the whole event.
Most of our wards are open - the typical stuff: acting-out adolescents, depressives past the high-risk period, anorexics, minor manics, Alzheimer's, cokeheads, and alkies on detox.
Prospective models of depressive symptoms in early adolescence: Attributional style, stress, and support.
The TV audience was the worst of us, the catatonics and depressives, so it wasn't like they were going to tell on me.
Segal (1992) found that recovered dependent depressives were plunged back into depression by a loss or conflict in interpersonal relationships.
But, self-critical depressives relapsed when they failed at school or work.
Do hopeless depressives only feel guilty and ashamed of sins of omission?
But Richard was not a well-known writer, and he got this kind of letter every other year (and they were normally about book reviewing anyway though he did receive the odd scrawled note from hospitals and mental institutions where his novels were found in the libraries or on the book trolleys and stirred strange responses in depressives and amputees and other patients whose minds were disorganized by drugs).
He seemed to want something more complicated: he likedor kept going out withdark and violent depressives who never ate anything and never got the curse.
You've heard of manic depressives, there are also morning depressives.
He came from a long line of manic depressives, megalomaniacs, and megalomaniac depressives.
Manic depressives and schizophrenics were lumped with acute psychotics and hopeless alcoholics.
Nor that jokes and sarcasm were here usually too pregnant and fertile with clinical significance not to be taken seriously: sarcasm and jokes were often the bottle in which clinical depressives sent out their most plangent screams for someone to care and help them.