depressional
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
depression + -al
Adjective[edit]
depressional (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to psychological depression.
- 2008 March 16, Garrison Keillor, “Woe Be Gone”, in New York Times[1]:
- It’s only right that the tide of inspirational books should yield to the occasional depressional one — for every humorist, a dishumorist, a man who runs his nails down the blackboard and makes everyone’s hair stand up, though we humorists would note that you have to work hard to get a laugh and that dishumor is tyrannical: you need only say out loud, “How can you people stand around here and enjoy yourselves while the world is falling apart?” and all conversation ends.
- Of or pertaining to a physical depression.
- 2006, Russell S. Harmon, Carol M. Wicks, Derek C. Ford, Perspectives on Karst geomorphology, hydrology, and geochemistry, page 229:
- Those natural depressional wetlands are comparable to those occurring in the SE and NW case-study areas...