DEPRESSIVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does depressive mean? 

• DEPRESSIVE (noun)
  The noun DEPRESSIVE has 1 sense:

1. someone suffering psychological depression

  Familiarity information: DEPRESSIVE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEPRESSIVE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone suffering psychological depression

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("depressive" is a kind of...):

diseased person; sick person; sufferer (a person suffering from an illness)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "depressive"):

melancholiac; melancholic (someone subject to melancholia)

 Context examples 

Also called: Clinical depression, Dysthymic disorder, Major depressive disorder, Unipolar depression

(Depression, NIH: National Institute of Mental Health)

Overall, this results in a depressive effect on the central nervous system.

(Chloral Hydrate, NCI Thesaurus)

A self-test that measures depressive feelings and behaviors within the general population.

(Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale, NCI Thesaurus)

Lithium salts are used to treat certain mental disorders, especially bipolar (manic depressive) disorder.

(Lithium, NCI Dictionary)

These include: • Major depressive disorder • Dysthymic disorder (a chronic, mild depression) • Bipolar disorder (also called manic depression)

(Mood Disorders, NIH)

Inhibition of serotonin recycling enhances serotonergic function through serotonin accumulation in the synaptic cleft, which resulting in long-term desensitization and downregulation of 5HT1 (serotonin) receptors and leading to symptomatic relief of depressive illness.

(Paroxetine Mesylate, NCI Thesaurus)

Inhibition of serotonin recycling enhances serotonergic function through serotonin accumulation in the synaptic cleft, resulting in long-term desensitization and downregulation of 5HT1 (serotonin) receptors and leading to symptomatic relief of depressive illness.

(Paroxetine hydrochloride, NCI Thesaurus)

By binding to the mu-opioid receptors, oxycodone terephthalate also causes euphoria, anxiolysis, miosis, sedation, physical dependence, constipation, respiratory depression as well as a depressive effect on the cough center in the medulla.

(Oxycodone Terephthalate, NCI Thesaurus)

Intriguingly, the genetic basis of depressive disorder also overlaps with that for obesity and multiple measures of sleep quality, including daytime sleepiness, insomnia and tiredness.

(Forty-Four Genomic Variants Linked to Major Depression, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The depressive stage of bipolar disorder.

(Bipolar Depression, NCI Thesaurus)