depressing
Meaning of depressing
adjective
- causing or resulting in a feeling of miserable dejection.
that thought is too depressing for words
- causing a damaging reduction in economic activity.
the mortgage rate increase will have a depressing effect on the housing market
- make (someone) feel utterly dispirited or dejected.
that first day at school depressed me
- reduce the level or strength of activity in (something, especially an economic or biological system).
fear of inflation in America depressed bond markets
alcohol depresses the nervous system
- push or pull (something) down into a lower position.
depress the lever
late Middle English: from Old French depresser, from late Latin depressare, frequentative of deprimere ‘press down’.
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Hyphenation of depressing
de-press-ing
- It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
- depressing is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
depressing synonyms
Meaning blue:
blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, dispiriting, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary
Meaning depressive:
Meaning causing unhappiness, disappointment, or worry:
Meaning causing anxiety, sorrow or pain; upsetting:
Meaning (of a part of the body) affected with pain:
Meaning causing overwhelming distress; very upsetting:
Meaning causing someone to lose determination or confidence; discouraging or dispiriting:
Meaning causing someone to lose confidence or enthusiasm; depressing:
Meaning causing someone to lose confidence or hope; disheartening:
Meaning (of a situation) not hopeful or encouraging; unlikely to have a favourable outcome:
Meaning of the very darkest colour owing to the absence of or complete absorption of light; the opposite of white:
Meaning dark or dull in colour or tone:
Meaning a hole dug in the ground to receive a coffin or dead body, typically marked by a stone or mound:
Meaning not happy:
Meaning having a feeling of melancholy; sad and pensive:
Meaning causing or characterized by sorrow or regret; unfortunate and regrettable:
Meaning (of a person) in a very unhappy or unfortunate state:
Meaning expressing sorrow; mournful:
Meaning seeming difficult to deal with in prospect; intimidating:
Meaning causing disappointment or loss of enthusiasm:
Meaning expressing or showing a lack of approval or support:
Meaning characterized by an abnormal and unhealthy interest in disturbing and unpleasant subjects, especially death and disease:
Meaning make sad or dispirited; depress:
Meaning inducing tears; sad:
Meaning having the mournful, sombre character appropriate to a funeral:
Meaning (of a person) wretchedly unhappy or uncomfortable:
Meaning gloomy; depressing:
Meaning not giving or feeling any pleasure or satisfaction; grim or dismal:
Meaning offering no means of relaxation and pleasure:
Meaning (especially of a place or prospect) not attractive:
Meaning cause to feel sorrow; make unhappy:
Meaning cause (someone) to lose enthusiasm or hope:
Meaning cause (someone) to lose determination or confidence:
Meaning cause (someone) to lose confidence or hope:
Meaning cause (someone) to lose confidence or enthusiasm:
Meaning make (someone) feel intimidated or apprehensive:
Meaning compress or squeeze forcefully so as to break, damage, or distort in shape:
Meaning (of a structure or area of land) tremble or vibrate:
Meaning make (someone) feel utterly wretched and unhappy:
Meaning cause distress or anxiety to:
Meaning make (someone) unhappy, disappointed, or worried:
Meaning cause (someone) anxiety, sorrow, or pain:
Meaning feel intense sorrow:
Meaning (of a ghost) manifest itself at (a place) regularly:
Meaning draw a harrow over (land):
Meaning make smaller or less in amount, degree, or size:
Meaning less high in position:
Meaning make or become weaker in power, resolve, or physical strength:
Meaning gradually weaken or destroy (a person's strength or power):
Meaning deprive of strength and vigour:
Meaning weaken or damage (something, especially a faculty or function):
Meaning bring about a general reduction of price levels in (an economy):
Meaning set or serve as a limit to:
Meaning examine (something) in order to determine its accuracy, quality, or condition, or to detect the presence of something:
Meaning restrain or keep in check:
Meaning put a bridle on (a horse):
Meaning hinder, restrain, or prevent (an action or process):
Meaning put a limit on; keep under control:
Meaning make an opening, incision, or wound in (something) with a sharp-edged tool or object:
Meaning reduce the price of:
Meaning deduct an amount from (the usual price of something):
Meaning diminish in value over a period of time:
Meaning reduce or underestimate the worth or importance of:
Meaning make or become less:
Meaning reduce to a lower grade, rank, or level of importance:
Meaning cut with a wide, sweeping movement, typically using a knife or sword:
Meaning end, cancel, or dismiss suddenly and ruthlessly:
Meaning press, move, or touch (something) with one's thumb:
Meaning draw liquid through the tap or spout of (a cask, barrel, or other container):
Meaning (of a person) control the functioning of (a machine, process, or system):
Meaning make (something) active or operative:
Meaning cause (a machine or device) to operate:
depressing antonyms
Meaning give support, confidence, or hope to (someone):
Meaning lift or move to a higher position or level:
Meaning raise to a higher position or level:
Translation of depressing
- Italian: triste, deprimente, scoraggiante, sconsolante
- Spanish: desconsolado, desconsolada, deprimente, depresivo, depresiva
- German: entmutigen
- French: décourageant
Anagrams of depressing
Words that rhyme with depressing
sing, Christmasing, Dephasing, abasing, abrasing, aliasing, antialiasing, appeasing, basing, biasing, brainteasing, canvasing, carcasing, casing, ceasing, chasing, creasing, databasing, debasing, deceasing, decreasing, degreasing, dephasing, discasing, diseasing, displeasing, dyscrasing, easing, embasing, encasing, enchasing, encreasing, erasing, feasing, freebasing, goliasing, greasing, imbasing, impleasing, incasing, inchasing, increasing, interchasing, lasing, leasing, liasing, lowercasing, masing, measing, metaphrasing
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