Synonyms
- black
- bleak
- cheerless
- chill
- Cimmerian
- cloudy
- cold
- comfortless
- dark
- darkening
- depressive
- desolate
- dire
- disconsolate
- dismal
- drear
- dreary
- dreich [chiefly Scottish]
- elegiac
- elegiacal
- forlorn
- funereal
- gloomy
- glum
- godforsaken
- gray
- grey
- lonely
- lonesome
- lugubrious
- miserable
- morbid
- morose
- murky
- plutonian
- saturnine
- sepulchral
- solemn
- somber
- sombre
- sullen
- sunless
- tenebrific
- tenebrous
- wretched
Examples of depressing in a Sentence
This rainy weather is depressing.
He paints a depressing picture of modern life.
Recent Examples on the Web
The depressing list of layoffs at game studios continues to grow on a weekly basis, with GTA 6 and BioShock publisher Take-Two laying off hundreds of employees last month and cutting projects.
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Tom Warren, The Verge, 8 May 2024
Moreover, the share of cash buyers in San Diego is sizable, which limits the depressing effect of elevated interest rates on demand.
—Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 May 2024
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Tom Warren, The Verge, 8 May 2024
Moreover, the share of cash buyers in San Diego is sizable, which limits the depressing effect of elevated interest rates on demand.
—Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 May 2024
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“Depressing.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/depressing. Accessed 19 May. 2024.
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