depressive
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5.2
- adjective
- /dɪˈprɛsɪv/
- Specialized
:
depresivo
- In the present study, there were no changes in depressive mood from pre- to post-testing.
- depressive symptoms
- depressive mood
- depressive episode
And those both of those things have a negative kind of depressive effect on your motivation.
- And those both of those things have a negative kind of depressive effect on your motivation.
- I mean, they fall into this depressive state.
- And we're talking about, you know, like manic states, depressive states.
- Getting your depression or depressive mood symptoms treated becomes an essential first step.
- You can make folks experience more symptoms even than their baseline, say depressive symptoms.
- The receptors get tagged that are responsible for your like anxiousness and depressive symptoms.
- I think most people would say that depressive states are bad when they bring down the baseline on life.
- One, that those depressive states are biochemical states.
- And they've actually found that the the food and the eating well has massive, massive impact on reducing depressive symptoms.
- It's grief because you're having to unlearn your life with this person and watching your child go through a depressive state.
- Alcoholic on all this way depressive anxiety fell away.
Examples
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Getting your depression or depressive mood symptoms treated becomes an essential first step.
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But as soon as I started feeling myself slip into a sad, what I would call depressive state, there was a level of panic.
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I mean, they fall into this depressive state.
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And those both of those things have a negative kind of depressive effect on your motivation.
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The remaining 18 control children reported a minimum of depressive and anxious symptoms on all measures.
Academic text (1993) -
There were also more feelings of guilt and depressive symptoms among the mothers.
Academic text (2008) -
However, several studies indicate that feeling dependent on others increases depressive symptoms in older immigrants.
Academic text (2011) -
The number of medical conditions was the strongest predictor of depressive symptomatology for this group.
Academic text (2011) -
Susan, a 10-year-old fourth grader, was referred by her teacher for depressive symptoms and poor school performance.
Academic text (2011) -
After struggling with low energy and sadness for months, he finally accepted that he was experiencing a depressive episode.
Synonyms
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1.0
Feeling unhappy or upset because of something
441
3.5
Feeling very sad and without hope
336
1.0
Feeling sad or without energy
62
4.5
Making you feel sad and hopeless
37
5.9
Feeling or showing deep sadness
29
2.5
Feeling sad and without much hope
24
6.7
Feeling sad or unhappy
23
4.1
Looking or feeling sad and quiet
18
7.7
Feeling very sad and without hope about the future
14
3.6
Feeling very sad because of loss or disappointment
11
6.7
Feeling very unhappy and alone after a loss
8
4.4
Feeling sad and quiet without much energy
8
4.4
Feeling sad and not very hopeful
5
4.5
Feeling very sad and not hopeful
5
5.8
Feeling sad and low
5
7.2
Feeling deep, quiet sadness
1
4.1
Feeling sad and without much hope
Making people feel sad for a long time
Feeling sad and low in energy for a long time
Antonyms
Compounds
- Archaic
4
7.0
A person who has bipolar disorder with periods of very high energy and deep sadness
- Specialized
3
4.8
Long periods of deep sadness and loss of interest that make daily life hard and often need medical help
- Specialized
1
6.1
A period of severe sadness and loss of interest that makes daily life hard
- Archaic
1
4.5
A mental illness with times of very high energy followed by times of very low mood
- Archaic
A mental illness with times of very high energy and times of very low mood
How Depressing
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Depressive breaks into de- 'down' and press 'push', the same idea you see in the common word press. So a depressive mood is like being 'pressed down' by sad feelings, which is why we use the word for lasting sadness.