Meanings
adjectivedepressionlike (comparative more depressionlike, superlative most depressionlike)
comparative more depressionlike · superlative most depressionlike
- economicsResembling a depression
El Centro has the highest unemployment rate in the nation, a depressionlike 22.6 percent.
2009 March 4, David Leonhardt, “Job Losses Show Breadth of a Recession”, in New York Times
Origin
- Englishdepression
- Proto-Indo-European*leyg-
- Proto-Germanic*līką
- Englishdepressionlike
From depression + -like.
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