Synonyms
- black
- bleak
- cheerless
- chill
- Cimmerian
- cloudy
- cold
- comfortless
- dark
- darkening
- depressive
- desolate
- dire
- disconsolate
- dismal
- drear
- dreary
- dreich [chiefly Scottish]
- elegiac
- elegiacal
- forlorn
- funereal
- gloomy
- glum
- godforsaken
- gray
- grey
- lonely
- lonesome
- lugubrious
- miserable
- morbid
- morose
- murky
- plutonian
- saturnine
- sepulchral
- solemn
- somber
- sombre
- sullen
- sunless
- tenebrific
- tenebrous
- wretched
Examples of depressing in a Sentence
This rainy weather is depressing.
He paints a depressing picture of modern life.
Recent Examples on the Web
Another was that Midtown — and especially Times Square, where, circa 1993, quality of life was pretty depressing — has outsize importance, and can in fact be transformed.
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New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 8 July 2024
The afternoons of most holidays are depressing, and that July Fourth afternoon was as disquieting as any.
—E. L. Doctorow, The New Yorker, 1 July 2024
His debate performance, which was depressing to watch, answered that question.
—Candy Woodall, Baltimore Sun, 28 June 2024
And shows with the most jolly of intentions can be depressing.
—Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 15 June 2024
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New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 8 July 2024
The afternoons of most holidays are depressing, and that July Fourth afternoon was as disquieting as any.
—E. L. Doctorow, The New Yorker, 1 July 2024
His debate performance, which was depressing to watch, answered that question.
—Candy Woodall, Baltimore Sun, 28 June 2024
And shows with the most jolly of intentions can be depressing.
—Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 15 June 2024
See all Example Sentences for depressing
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“Depressing.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/depressing. Accessed 26 Jul. 2024.
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