depressoid

English

Etymology 1

From depress +‎ -oid (“resembling”).

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Adjective

depressoid (comparative more depressoid, superlative most depressoid)

1. 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, […]

   • 1987, Sidney Zisook, Biophysical Aspects of Bereavement, American Psychiatric Press, →ISBN, page 183:

     The major problem for the clinician involves the differentiation of those states which represent "real" depression from those "depressoid" states associated with grief.

   • 1993, Therese A. Rando, Treatment of Complicated Mourning, Research Press, →ISBN, page 210:

     They recommend that such depressions be treated with antidepressants whether evolved from the depressoid state of acute grief or not.

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Etymology 2

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

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Adjective

depressoid (comparative more depressoid, superlative most depressoid)

1. (slang, derogatory) Depressing or miserable.
   • 1996 September 27, Diane Wilson, “Re: Goals?”, in alt.support.depression‎^[1] (Usenet):

     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.

   • 2002 April 21, Adam, “Re: Another survey - last movie.”, in misc.writing.screenplays‎^[2] (Usenet):

     The slow cinema verite pacing of this film suited it's totally depressoid theme.

   • 2007, Thrity Umrigar, If Today Be Sweet, Harper Perennial, →ISBN, page 250:

     “The ski trip? Oh, God, what a depressoid bust. It turned out we didn't have reservations at the place we thought we did. […]

Noun

depressoid (plural depressoids)

1. (slang, derogatory) A depressed or miserable person.
   • 1982, Jean Rosenbaum, Veryl Rosenbaum, The Writer's Survival Guide, Writer's Digest Books, →ISBN, page 140:

     […] 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. […]

   • 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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