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