A depressive is someone who suffers from depression. see also manic-depressive. relating to or suffering from depression. someone who suffers from depression
(psychiatry) a state of depression with all the classic symptoms (anhedonia and lethargy and sleep disturbance and despondency and morbid thoughts and feelings of worthlessness and sometimes attempted suicide) but with no known organic dysfunction
If someone is manic-depressive, they have a medical condition in which they sometimes feel excited and confident and at other times very depressed. She told them that her daughter-in-law was manic-depressive A manic-depressive is someone who is manic-depressive. Her mother is a manic depressive