depressive
adjective /dɪˈpresɪv/
/dɪˈpresɪv/
- connected with the medical condition of depression
- depressive illness
Oxford Collocations DictionaryDepressive is used with these nouns:- episode
- illness
- symptom
- …
Word Originearly 17th cent.: from French dépressif, -ive or medieval Latin depressivus, from depress- ‘pressed down’, from the verb deprimere ‘press down’.