DEPRESSING
Dictionary entry overview: What does depressing mean? • DEPRESSING (adjective)
The adjective DEPRESSING has 2 senses:
1. causing dejection
2. causing or suggestive of sorrow or gloom
Familiarity information: DEPRESSING used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• DEPRESSING (adjective)
Meaning:
Causing dejection
Synonyms:
drear; depressing; dreary; dismal; gloomy; dispiriting; disconsolate; dingy; drab; sorry; grim; dark; blue
Context examples:
a blue day / the dark days of the war / a week of rainy depressing weather / a disconsolate winter landscape / the first dismal dispiriting days of November / a dark gloomy day / grim rainy weather
Similar:
cheerless; uncheerful (lacking cheer; depressing)
Meaning:
Causing or suggestive of sorrow or gloom
Synonyms:
depressive; saddening; depressing; gloomy
Context examples:
a gloomy outlook / gloomy news
Similar:
sad (experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness)
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