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Definition of Depressive
1. Noun. Someone suffering psychological depression.
Generic synonyms: Diseased Person, Sick Person, Sufferer
Definition of Depressive
1. a. Able or tending to depress or cast down.
Definition of Depressive
1. Adjective. Tending to produce depression; dispiriting; melancholy. ¹
2. Adjective. Being depressed; dispirited; melancholic. ¹
3. Noun. A person suffering from depression. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Depressive
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Depressive
1. 1. Pushing down. 2. Pertaining to or causing depression. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Depressive
Literary usage of Depressive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"A maniacal attack of the manic-depressive group must be distinguished from the
... (6) The depressive Phase The depressive phase or melancholic state of the ..."
2. The Unsound Mind and the Law: A Presentation of Forensic Psychiatry by George W. Jacoby (1918)
"(4) Manic depressive Insanity. This disease occasionally does not begin until
the period of involution and then the depressive stage may resemble ..."
3. Neurosyphilis by Elmer Ernest Southard, Harry Caesar Solomon (1917)
"Differential diagnosis between NEUROSYPHILIS and MANIC-depressive PSYCHOSIS. ...
Accordingly, the diagnosis of manic-depressive psychosis might well have ..."
4. Diseases of the nervous system: A Text-book of Neurology and Psychiatry by Smith Ely Jelliffe, William Alanson White (1917)
"MANIC-depressive PSYCHOSES. THE general concept of the manic-depressive psychoses
has been an extremely difficult one for some reason or other for many ..."
5. Nervous and Mental Diseases by Archibald Church, Frederick Peterson (1919)
"THE depressive PHASE. The cardinal symptoms of the depressive phase of manic-depressive
insanity are, as stated above, a depressed mood, retarded flow of ..."
6. An Outline of Abnormal Psychology by James Winfred Bridges (1921)
"I. Symptoms of Manic-depressive Insanity. The fundamental symptom in all forms
is psychic inhibition, and in the manic phase there is likewise exaggerated ..."
7. Clinical Psychiatry by Allen Ross Diefendorf, Emil Kraepelin (1907)
"In the depressive phase we expect to find psychomotor retardation, absence of
spontaneous activity, dearth of ideas, and depressed emotional attitude; ..."
8. The Kingdom of Evils: Psychiatric Social Work Presented in One Hundred Case by Elmer Ernest Southard, Mary Cromwell Jarrett (1922)
"MANIC-depressive PSYCHOSES In many ways the cyclothymic group—manic-depressive
psychosis (Group IX of Book III), offers more of interest to the psychiatrist ..."
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