depressoid
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
depress + -oid (“resembling”)
Pronunciation edit
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Adjective edit
depressoid (comparative more depressoid, superlative most depressoid)
- Resembling depression.
- 1982, Psychiatric Annals, volume 16, page 304:
- […] of the difficulties in differentiating the "depressoid" picture of acute grief from the clinical depressions that may evolve later, […]
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Etymology 2 edit
depress + -oid (“derogatory suffix”)
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depressoid (comparative more depressoid, superlative most depressoid)
- (slang, derogatory) Depressing or miserable.
Noun edit
depressoid (plural depressoids)
- (slang, derogatory) A depressed or miserable person.
- 1992 May 19, Wayne Robins, “The Cure: An Antidote For Gloom”, in Newsday:
- Those who think of the Cure as a band of depressoids playing dark music for adolescent introverts could not imagine how determined it was to let the sun shine into Nassau Coliseum Friday night.
- 2011, Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns), Crown Archetype, →ISBN, page 142:
- It's always been incredibly challenging for me to put pen to page, because writing, at its heart, is a solitary pursuit, designed to make people depressoids, drug addicts, misanthropes, and antisocial weirdos (see every successful writer ever except Judy Blume).
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