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Connected with depression, a serious feeling of sadness that lasts a long time and affects everyday life — a depressive illness or a depressive episode. As a noun, "a depressive" is a person who suffers from depression, often as a medical diagnosis.
憂鬱症的;憂鬱症患者
組成depress (to push down; also to make someone very sad for a long time) + -ive.
同家族的字
- depressthe base verb
- depressionshares the same root, the noun for the illness or feeling
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
depressiveadj/dɪˈpɹɛsɪv/
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Causing depression; dispiriting.
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Affected by depression, depressed; dispirited; melancholic.
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Relating to or characteristic of depression.
depressivenoun/dɪˈpɹɛsɪv/
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A person suffering from depression.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。