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Depressing   /dɪprˈɛsɪŋ/   Listen
Depressing

adjective
1.
Causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy.  Synonyms: cheerless, uncheerful.  "Something cheerless about the room" , "A moody and uncheerful person" , "An uncheerful place"  Antonym: cheerful.


Depress

verb
(past & past part. depressed; pres. part. depressing)
1.
Lower someone's spirits; make downhearted.  Synonyms: cast down, deject, demoralise, demoralize, dismay, dispirit, get down.  "The bad state of her child's health demoralizes her"  Antonym: elate.
2.
Lower (prices or markets).
3.
Cause to drop or sink.  Synonym: lower.
4.
Press down.  Synonym: press down.
5.
Lessen the activity or force of.



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"Depressing" Quotes from Famous Books



... altered by the depressing influence of his long imprisonment that, had I not known it was he who spoke, I should scarcely have recognised it, so sad was it, and so unlike to the merry, cheerful voice we had been accustomed to hear. I pondered this much, and thought of the terrible decline ...
— The Coral Island - A Tale Of The Pacific Ocean • R. M. Ballantyne
... lay on the sofa in her own room. She was still weak, but oh! the relief of being back again and of ending that terrible nightmare which had oppressed her for—how long? Even the depressing effect of the drug could not quench the exaltation of finding herself free. She went over the details of the night one by one. She must do it, she thought. She must never lose grip of what happened or forget ...
— Jack O' Judgment • Edgar Wallace
... of this depressing conversation a courier arrived from Stamford to Dr. Cavendish, recalling him immediately to return thither, the invalid there having sustained an alarming relapse. The good doctor, sincerely reluctant to quit Thaddeus (whom he still knew by no other name ...
— Thaddeus of Warsaw • Jane Porter
... Zetland dwellings stand a favourable comparison with those of the Western Islands. There is a bareness and desolation about the misery of a Harris house that is tenfold more depressing. It is a poor house and an empty one - a decaying, mouldy shell, without the pretence of a kernel. Whereas in Zetland there is usually a certain fulness. There are bulky sea-chests, with smaller ones on the top of them; chairs, with ...
— Second Shetland Truck System Report • William Guthrie
... and ah are most commonly used as signs of these depressing passions, it must be confessed that they are sometimes employed by reputable writers, as marks of cheerfulness or exultation; as, "Ah, pleasant proof," &c.—Cowper's Task, p. 179. "Merrily oh! merrily oh!"—Moore's Tyrolese Song. "Cheerily ...
— The Grammar of English Grammars • Goold Brown


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