depressional

English

Etymology

From depression +‎ -al.

Adjective

depressional (not comparable)

1. 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.

2. 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...

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