Repressive vs Depressed - What's the difference?
repressive | depressed |
Serving to repress or suppress; oppressive
* 1846 Allan Freer - The North British Review
* 1989 Louis Henkin - Right V. Might
(depress)
unhappy, and blaming oneself rather than others; despondent
Suffering from clinical depression.
Suffering damaging effects of economic recession.
As adjectives the difference between repressive and depressed
is that repressive is while depressed is unhappy, and blaming oneself rather than others; despondent.As a verb depressed is
(depress).repressive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Human law is indeed repressive', but ' repressive on moral principles comprehensively applied to the whole community, and commanding the approval of the moral sense of the governed
- First, the classical rule forbids any unilateral right to use force to overthrow a regime on the sole grounds that it is repressive in character.