| ADJECTIVE | all | depressing, cheerless, uncheerful | causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy |
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| Sounds | dihpreh'sihng | |
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| Rhymes | abducting ... zoning: 2044 rhymes with ihng... | |
| Meaning | Causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy. | |
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| Example | "the economic outlook is depressing" | |
| Synonyms | cheerless, uncheerful | |
| Attribute of | cheerfulness, cheer, sunniness, sunshine | The quality of being cheerful and dispelling gloom |
| Narrower | blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary | Causing dejection |
| somber, sombre, melancholy | Grave or even gloomy in character | |
| See also | joyless | not experiencing or inspiring joy |
| unhappy | Experiencing or marked by or causing sadness or sorrow or discontent | |
| Opposite | cheerful | Full of or promoting cheer |
| Spanish | deprimente | |
| Catalan | depressiu, depriment | |
| Adverbs | depressingly | in a depressing manner or to a depressing degree |
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