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  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"

    Synonyms:
    uncheerful, cheerless

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

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#8709horrible
#9372painful
#14856grim
#15738frustrating
#15772disappointing
#17102miserable
#20906depressing
#25029bleak
#25291melancholy
#28539dismal
#28701gloomy
#30054hateful
#30945wretched
#36836discouraging
#42423distressing
#60125mournful
#76343disheartening
#109555demoralizing
#155391saddening
#176112cheerless
#190335dispiriting

How to use depressing in a sentence?

  1. Mark Pfeifer:

    I saw The Hmong Cultural Center right away and my heart sank. The Hmong Cultural Center was so depressing.

  2. 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.

  3. Elaine Santore:

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

  4. The Fund:

    Such market reactions could sharply contract economic activity, further depressing asset prices in a self-reinforcing cycle.

  5. Inga Gubeka:

    People going around in surgical masks is depressing, i have to maintain status quo and who I am despite the situation.


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