depressional
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or pertaining to psychological depression.
adj
Of or pertaining to a physical depression.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "Those natural depressional wetlands are comparable to those occurring in the SE and NW case-study areas..."
Etymology
From depression + -al.