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Definitions: Depressive |
DepressiveAdjective1. Causing or suggestive of sorrow or gloom; "a gloomy outlook"; "gloomy news". Noun1. Someone suffering psychological depression. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: DepressiveSynonyms: depressing (adj), gloomy (adj), saddening (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Pain | Distressing; afflicting, afflictive; joyless, cheerless, comfortless; dismal, disheartening; depressing, depressive; dreary, melancholy, grievous, piteous; woeful, rueful, mournful, deplorable, pitiable, lamentable; sad, affecting, touching, pathetic. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Depressive |
| English words defined with "depressive": depressive disorder ♦ involutional depression ♦ major depressive episode, manic depressive illness ♦ unipolar depression. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "depressive": manic depressive psychosis, manic depressive reaction ♦ Pemoline. (references) |
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Health | However, current data indicate that depressive symptoms may respond to treatment in many of these patients. (references) | |
This reclassification occurs less frequently as patients become older and have an increased number of depressive episodes. (references) | ||
About 800,000 persons are widowed each year, most of them are old and experience varying degrees of depressive symptomatology. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Depressive" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.36% of the time. "Depressive" is used about 157 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 99.36% | 156 | 25,144 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.64% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 157 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "depressive": Depressive Disorder ♦ major depressive episode ♦ maniac depressive ♦ manic depressive ♦ manic depressive illness ♦ manic depressive psychosis ♦ manic depressive reaction. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "depressive": fantastic-depressive, manic-depressive. | |
Containing "depressive": manic-depressive psychosis. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "depressive"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | كئيب (bleak, blue, cheerless, damp, dark, dejected, depressed, depressing, desolate, disconsolate, dismal, dispirited, distressful, distressing, doleful, dolorous, down, downcast, down-hearted, drear, dreary, droopy, dyspeptic, funeral, funereal, gloomy, glum, gray, grey, grief-stricken, grieved, grievous, heavy-hearted, ill, joyless, leaden, lifeless, low-spirited, melancholic, melancholy, moody, mournful, out of spirits, rueful, sad, saddening, somber, sombre, spiritless, sullen, tearful, weary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | подтискащ (grinding, oppressing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 压抑 (Constrain, Constrained, Constraining, repressive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | depresivní (depressing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | depressiv. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | depressief, neerslachtig. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | dépressif (depressively). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | depressiv (depressively). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | καταθλιπτική ασθένεια (depressive illness), μανιοκαταθλιπτικόσ (maniac depressive), παραλήρημα υπερβολής (délire d'énormité, depressive enormity delirium), αθυμία (anxiety, depression, depressive mood, difficulty, mirthlessness, moods). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | leverő (damper, disheartening), lehangoló (damper, depressing, disconcerting, dismal, distressing, humping, trying). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | distimia (depressive mood, dysthymia), disfonia (depressive mood, dysphonia), délire d'énormité (délire d'énormité, depressive enormity delirium), stupore melancolico (depressive stupor, melancholic stupor), stato depressivo (depression, depressive mood), psicopatia maniacodepressiva (manic depressive psychosis, manic depressive reaction), malattia depressiva (depressive illness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | mergnagh, groamey (depressing, ill-tempered, joyless, moody, sepulchral, sombre), groamagh (bad-tempered, bearish, bleak, bleak of weather, cheerless, crestfallen, dejected, disagreeable, dour, forbidding, gloomy, glum, grim, gruff, mopish, morose, prospects, prospects), saturnine, sombre, sorry, stern, sullen, surly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | epressiveday depressivo (depressing). (various references) депрессивный. (various references) depresión (cyclonic depression, depressed area, depression, depressive mood, dip, economic depression, hollow, low, negative pressure, pot-hole, pressure drop, recession, scoop, sink, slump, trough, wane), delirio macróptico (délire d'énormité, depressive enormity delirium), maníacodepresivo (manic depressive), enfermedad depresiva (depressive illness). (various references) deprimerande (depressing), depressiv, nedslående (depressing, disappointing, discouraging, disheartening). (various references) yılgın (daunted), kasvetli (black, bleak, cheerless, comfortless, dismal, doleful, drear, dreary, funereal, gloomy, grave, howling, lugubrious, melancholy, mopish, muzzy, pitchy, sable, sad, somber, sombre, sullen, tenebrous, waste), bunaltıcı (close, mind-bending, muggy, oppressive, stuffy, stupefying, suffocating, sweltering, sweltry). (various references) маніакально-депресивний синдром (manic depressive), маніакально-депресивний (manic depressive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "depressive": depressively, depressives. (additional references) | |
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"Depressive" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: degressive, deresive. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "depressive" (pronounced dupre"siv) |
| 7 | -u p r e" s i v | oppressive. |
| 6 | -p r e" s i v | expressive, impressive, repressive, unimpressive. |
| 5 | -r e" s i v | aggressive, progressive, regressive. |
| 4 | -e" s i v | excessive, obsessive, possessive, recessive, successive. |
| 3 | -s i v | abrasive, abusive, adhesive, allusive, apprehensive, aversive, coercive, cohesive, collusive, comprehensive, compulsive, conclusive, conducive, convulsive, corrosive, counteroffensive, decisive, defensive, derisive, discursive, dismissive, dispersive, divisive, effusive, elusive, erosive, evasive, exclusive, expansive, expensive, explosive, extensive, hypertensive, illusive, impassive, impulsive, incisive, inclusive, inconclusive, indecisive, inexpensive, inoffensive, intrusive, invasive, massive, missive, nonexclusive, nonresponsive, obtrusive, offensive, passive, pensive, permissive, persuasive, pervasive, reclusive, reflexive, repulsive, responsive, submissive, subversive, unobtrusive, unresponsive. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-e-i-p-r-s-s-v" | |
-2 letters: deprives, deserves, despiser, devisees, devisers, diereses, disperse, disserve, dissever, presides, prevised, previses, speeders, speedier. | |
-3 letters: depress, deprive, derives, deserve, desires, despise, devisee, deviser, devises, diverse, peeress, peeries, predive, preside, pressed, previse, prissed, reseeds, resides, revised, revises, seeders, seedier, seepier, severed, speeder, speered, speired, spiders, spiered, veeries, vespers, vespids. | |
-4 letters: deeper, derive, desire, devise. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-e-i-p-r-s-s-v" | |
+1 letter: depressives. | |
+2 letters: depressively. | |
+3 letters: overimpressed. | |
+4 letters: dispersiveness, prediscoveries. | |
+5 letters: descriptiveness. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 65 70 72 65 73 73 69 76 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. . .--. .-. . ... ... .. ...- . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01100101 01110000 01110010 01100101 01110011 01110011 01101001 01110110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D e p r e s s i v e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0065 0070 0072 0065 0073 0073 0069 0076 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)38718284718585758871 |
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