depressing

Verb

• lower someone's spirits; make downhearted
• lower (prices or markets)
• cause to drop or sink
• press down
• lessen the activity or force of
• present participle and gerund of depress

Adjective

• causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy
  • "the economic outlook is depressing"

Adj

• Causing depression or sadness.
• Causing a reduction in economic activity.

Examples

• The policy may have a depressing effect on some branches of industry.
• The television news was depressing, so rather than start crying I turned it off.

Synonyms

cast down, cheerless, deject, demoralise, demoralize, depress, dismay, dispirit, get down, lower, press down, uncheerful, atrabiliary, atrabilious, bleak, comfortless, dark, deplorable, depressing, desolate, dire, disconsolate, dismal, distressing, doleful, dolesome, drear, drearisome, dreary, dreich, forlorn, gayless, gloomsome, gloomy, gray, grievous, grim, joyless, lachrymable, lack-laughter, lamentable, lugubrious, melancholy, mirthless, miserable, mournful, no joke, pathetic, pathetisad, pitiable, pitiful, pitisome, regrettable, rueful, sad, saddening, saturnine, solemn, somber, sombre, sorrowful, spiritless, sullen, sunless, tragic, uncheery, unhappy, unmerry, unpleasant, upsetting, wintry, woebegone, woeful

Antonyms

cheerful, elate

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