Thesaurus / depressive
other words for depressive
- brutal
- burdensome
- cruel
- depressing
- dictatorial
- harsh
- heavy-handed
- inhuman
- onerous
- overbearing
- tyrannical
- unjust
- backbreaking
- bleak
- confining
- demanding
- despotic
- discouraging
- disheartening
- dismal
- dispiriting
- exacting
- exigent
- gloomy
- grievous
- grinding
- headache
- heavy
- hefty
- ironhanded
- mean
- rough going
- severe
- somber
- superincumbent
- taxing
- tough
- troublesome
- weighty
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Now pain, which is depressive, leaves deeper traces in life than joy.
PHILOSOPHIC NIGHTS IN PARISREMY DE GOURMONT
In no case is the action of a stimulant followed by a depressive reaction.
TOBACCO AND ALCOHOLJOHN FISKE
Kraepelin treats stupors occurring in manic-depressive insanity as falling into two groups, the depressive and manic.
BENIGN STUPORSAUGUST HOCH
This was the first triumphant conclusion, but afterward came reaction and a depressive doubt.
EMPIRE BUILDERSFRANCIS LYNDE
Depressive memories or ideas have associated with them a depressing and disintegrating emotional quality.
APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY: DRIVING POWER OF THOUGHTWARREN HILTON
Although inactive and sometimes appearing dull the depressive individual is not apathetic but is suffering acutely.
BENIGN STUPORSAUGUST HOCH
Surely Callista Blake was not what his brother Jack would call a depressive type, if that word was still favored in the jargon.
THE TRIAL OF CALLISTA BLAKEEDGAR PANGBORN
As a matter of fact, it is extremely susceptible to mental influence, stimulant or depressive, and to emotions of all kinds.
PSYCHOTHERAPYJAMES J. WALSH
The last case is interesting in that a depressive onset to a deep stupor was observed in the Institute.
BENIGN STUPORSAUGUST HOCH
The continuance of depressive immigration will lead to nothing catastrophic.
THE OLD WORLD IN THE NEWEDWARD ALSWORTH ROSS
WORDS RELATED TO DEPRESSIVE
- black
- blah
- bleak
- boring
- cheerless
- colorless
- comfortless
- damp
- depressing
- depressive
- dingy
- dismal
- dispiriting
- doleful
- downcast
- drab
- dull
- forlorn
- funereal
- glum
- humdrum
- joyless
- lonely
- lonesome
- melancholy
- monotonous
- mournful
- oppressive
- pedestrian
- raw
- routine
- sad
- somber
- sorrowful
- tedious
- uneventful
- uninteresting
- wearisome
- windy
- wintry
- wretched
- backbreaking
- bleak
- brutal
- burdensome
- confining
- cruel
- demanding
- depressing
- depressive
- despotic
- dictatorial
- discouraging
- disheartening
- dismal
- dispiriting
- exacting
- exigent
- gloomy
- grievous
- grinding
- harsh
- headache
- heavy
- heavy-handed
- hefty
- inhuman
- ironhanded
- mean
- onerous
- overbearing
- rough going
- severe
- somber
- superincumbent
- taxing
- tough
- troublesome
- tyrannical
- unjust
- weighty
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.