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What is the adjective for depress?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb depress which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

depressive
  1. Causing depression; dispiriting.
  2. Affected by depression, depressed; dispirited; melancholic.
  3. Relative to, characteristic of depression.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “Optimistic articles about the future give people an excuse to escape from relentlessly depressive news about the present.”
depressing
  1. Causing depression or sadness.
  2. Causing a reduction in economic activity.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “That feeling of dejection could be very depressing for a child if he is not able to establish a relationship he wants.”
      “He experiences a profound sense of guilt for having left his mother working in a depressing environment in order to satisfy his selfish desires.”
      “Individualism was an essential characteristic of the bedouin, which was accentuated by the harsh and depressing climate of the desert.”
depressional
  1. Of or pertaining to psychological depression.
  2. Of or pertaining to a physical depression.
depressed
  1. unhappy; despondent
    1. Suffering from clinical depression.
  2. Suffering damaging effects of economic recession.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “I was really depressed and upset about him winning the election, like a lot of people.”
      “All three models have a depressed handle on the bottom side of the hull.”
      “The government made several attempts to encourage investment in depressed areas.”
depressoid
  1. Resembling depression.
  2. (pejorative) Depressing or miserable.
depressionless
  1. (economics) Without a depression.
  2. (cartography) Without areas of undefined flow direction (sinks).
  3. Examples:
    1. “Sober citizens were becoming persuaded that a panicless, depressionless era had begun.”
depressogenic
  1. Causing or tending to cause depression.
depressionogenic
  1. Alternative form of depressogenic
depressible
  1. Capable of being depressed (pushed down).
  2. Examples:
    1. “User selectable switches for setting the desired functional operation of the apparatus and a manually depressible panic button are also provided.”
      “It has a small, depressible head piece, with a narrow channel running through it.”
      “The pelvic fins are shorter than the pectorals, have a poorly developed membrane, and are depressible into ventral grooves.”
depressable
  1. Alternative form of depressible
depressionary
  1. (economics) Characteristic of a depression
depressionlike
  1. (economics) Resembling a depression
depressant
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