depressing

Meanings

Verb

• lower someone's spirits; make downhearted
• lower (prices or markets)
• cause to drop or sink
• press down
• lessen the activity or force of
• present participle and gerund of depress

Adjective

• causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy
  • "the economic outlook is depressing"

Adj

• Causing depression or sadness.
• Causing a reduction in economic activity.

Synonyms

atrabiliary, atrabilious, bleak, cast down, cheerless, comfortless, dark, deject, demoralise, demoralize, deplorable, depress, depressing, desolate, dire, disconsolate, dismal, dismay, dispirit, distressing, doleful, dolesome, drear, drearisome, dreary, dreich, forlorn, gayless, get down, gloomsome, gloomy, gray, grievous, grim, joyless, lachrymable, lack-laughter, lamentable, lower, lugubrious, melancholy, mirthless, miserable, mournful, no joke, pathetic, pathetisad, pitiable, pitiful, pitisome, press down, regrettable, rueful, sad, saddening, saturnine, solemn, somber, sombre, sorrowful, spiritless, sullen, sunless, tragic, uncheerful, uncheery, unhappy, unmerry, unpleasant, upsetting, wintry, woebegone, woeful

Antonyms

cheerful, elate