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Depressive vs Somber - What's the difference?

depressive | somber |

As adjectives the difference between depressive and somber

is that depressive is while somber is dark or dreary in character; joyless, and grim.

As a verb somber is

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depressive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Causing depression; dispiriting.
  • Affected by depression, depressed; dispirited; melancholic.
  • Relative to, characteristic of depression.

    • Derived terms

    * depressively * depressiveness

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person suffering from depression.
    • ----

    somber

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (Commonwealth English) sombre

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Dark or dreary in character; joyless, and grim.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=2002 , author=Dirk Wittenborn , title=Fierce People , passage=My mother prepared herself for the evening with the same somber deliberateness of the gladiators in Spartacus .}}
  • Dark, lacking color or brightness.

    • Synonyms

    * melancholy, unhappy, sad

    Verb

    (en verb)

    • References

    * *

    Anagrams

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