Antonyms for depressingde·press·ing

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.0 / 2 votes

1. depressing

   Antonyms:
   acceptable, agreeable, congenial, delicious, delightful, grateful, gratifying, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, refreshing, satisfying, welcome

   Synonyms:
   disappointing, distressing, hateful, horrible, melancholy, miserable, mournful, painful, saddening, woful, wretched

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:1.0 / 3 votes

1. depressing, cheerless, uncheerfuladjective

   causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy

   "the economic outlook is depressing"; "something cheerless about the room"; "a moody and uncheerful person"; "an uncheerful place"

   Antonyms:
   beaming, debonair, smiling(a), lighthearted, perky, sunny, cheerful, beamish, debonaire, blithesome, buoyant, cheery, light-hearted, glad, blithe, jaunty, gay, chipper, chirpy, lightsome, twinkly

   Synonyms:
   uncheerful, cheerless

How to use depressing in a sentence?

1. Colleague Jim Swift:

   John. as a former staffer myself, this must be a really depressing job. Ideally, young people go to work in Congress because they want to make a difference.

2. Elaine Santore:

   Either people would take the flowers or they would be filled in. the winter was so hard on everybody and so depressing.

3. Hikaru Sato:

   This is depressing because we are talking about a period before worries about a China-led slowdown in the global economy hit, for this quarter and beyond, China's cooling demand could hit our economy so it's not looking good.

4. Luis Buñuel:

   The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.

5. Tenisha Lemaigre:

   It’s really sad in La Loche today, very depressing.

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