depressing
11Depressing — Depress De*press , v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Depressed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Depressing}.] [L. depressus, p. p. of deprimere; de + premere to press. See {Press}.] 1. To press down; to cause to sink; to let fall; to lower; as, to depress the muzzle of a… …
12depressing — adjective Date: 1629 that depresses; especially causing emotional depression < a depressing story > • depressingly adverb …
13depressing — depressingly, adv. /di pres ing/, adj. serving to depress; inducing a state of depression: depressing news. [1780 90; DEPRESS + ING2] * * * …
14depressing — adjective Causing depression or sadness. The television news was depressing, so rather than start crying I turned it off …
15depressing — adjective 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 • Syn: ↑cheerless, ↑uncheerful • …
16depressing influence — index damper (depressant) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
17depressing — Synonyms and related words: affecting, afflictive, bitter, black, bleak, cheerless, comfortless, deplorable, depressant, depressive, discomforting, discouraging, disheartening, dismal, dismaying, dispiriting, distressful, distressing, dolorific,… …
18depressing — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. discouraging, disheartening, saddening; see dismal 1 , sad 2 . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. disheartening, discouraging, sad, dispiriting, hopeless, dismal, black, gloomy, cheerless, dreary, bleak, disappointing.… …
19depressing — de·press·ing || dɪ presɪŋ adj. saddening, causing depression de·press || dɪ pres v. make sad, discourage; press down on …
20depressing — adjective causing a feeling of miserable dejection. Derivatives depressingly adverb …
