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English adjective: depressing

1. depressing causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy


SamplesThe economic outlook is depressing.
Something cheerless about the room.
A moody and uncheerful person.
An uncheerful place.


Synonymscheerless, uncheerful


Similarblue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim, melancholy, somber, sombre, sorry


See alsojoyless, unhappy


Attributecheer, cheerfulness, sunniness, sunshine


Antonymscheerful









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