Depressoid

adj, noun, slang

adj, noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A depressed or miserable person. derogatory, slang

    "[…] I have no time for prolonged sadness or self-pity because I am making a living. People care little about your failures and don't enjoy the company of a depressoid. […]"

Adjective
  1. 1
    Resembling depression.

    "[…] of the difficulties in differentiating the "depressoid" picture of acute grief from the clinical depressions that may evolve later, […]"

  2. 2
    Depressing or miserable. derogatory, slang

    "My sense of humor is just as black as before. I still listen to the same depressoid music. Yet I'm much happier, and I'm open in ways that would have terrified me only a few years ago."

Example

More examples

"[…] of the difficulties in differentiating the "depressoid" picture of acute grief from the clinical depressions that may evolve later, […]"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From depress + -oid (“resembling”).

Etymology 2

From depress + -oid (“derogatory suffix”).

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