Word Meanings - DEPRESSINGLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In a depressing manner.

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• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• DEPRESSOMOTOR
  Depressing or diminishing the capacity for movement, as depressomotor nerves, which lower or inhibit muscular activity. -- n.
• MANNERISM
  Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
• DEPRESSOR
  A muscle that depresses or tends to draw down a part. Depressor nerve , a nerve which lowers the activity of an organ; as, the depressor nerve of the heart. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, presses down; an oppressor.
• DEPRESSION
  The angular distance of a celestial object below the horizon. (more info) 1. The act of depressing. 2. The state of being depressed; a sinking. 3. A falling in of the surface; a sinking below its true place; a cavity or hollow; as, roughness
• DEPRESSANT
  An agent or remedy which lowers the vital powers.
• DEPRESS
  To reduce in a lower degree. To depress the pole , to cause the sidereal pole to appear lower or nearer the horizon, as by sailing toward the equator. Syn. -- To sink; lower; abase; cast down; deject; humble; degrade; dispirit; discourage. (more
• MANNERLINESS
  The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale.
• MANNERED
  1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style
• DEPRESSIVE
  Able or tending to depress or cast down. -- De*press"ive*ness, n.
• MANNER
  manual, skillful, handy, fr. LL. manarius, for L. manuarius 1. Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion. The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner
• DEPRESSED
  Having the vertical diameter shorter than the horizontal or transverse; -- said of the bodies of animals, or of parts of the bodies. (more info) 1. Pressed or forced down; lowed; sunk; dejected; dispirited; sad; humbled. Concave on the upper side;
• MANNERCHOR
  A German men's chorus or singing club.
• MANNERLY
  Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant. What thou thinkest meet, and is most mannerly. Shak.
• DEPRESSINGLY
  In a depressing manner.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• OVERMANNER
  In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.
• ILL-MANNERED
  Impolite; rude.
• WELL-MANNERED
  Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous. Dryden.