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Frustrating vs Depressive - What's the difference?

frustrating | depressive |

As adjectives the difference between frustrating and depressive

is that frustrating is discouraging; causing annoyance or anger by excessive difficulty while depressive is .

As a verb frustrating

is .

frustrating

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • discouraging; causing annoyance or anger by excessive difficulty
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    Derived terms

    * frustratingly

    Verb

    (head)

    • Synonyms

    * discouraging

    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.
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