depressing
adjective
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adverb
Synonyms & Antonyms for depressing
Synonyms
black, bleak, cheerless, chill, Cimmerian, cloudy, cold, comfortless, dark, darkening, depressive, desolate, dire, disconsolate, dismal, drear, dreary, dreich [chiefly Scottish], elegiac (also elegiacal), forlorn, funereal, gloomy, glum, godforsaken, gray (also grey), lonely, lonesome, lugubrious, miserable, morbid, morose, murky, plutonian, saturnine, sepulchral, solemn, somber (or sombre), sullen, sunless, tenebrific, tenebrous, wretched
Antonyms
bright, cheerful, cheering, cheery, comforting, cordial, festive, friendly, gay, heartwarming, sunshiny
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The only balm for these depressing times is: several photos of the Olsen twins wearing enormous coats. — Allie Jones, The Cut, "A Child’s Treasury of the Olsen Twins Wearing Enormous Coats," 5 Feb. 2018 More fundamentally depressing, though, is this fact: Apple was a company that existed primarily to make stuff. — Andrew Moseman, Popular Mechanics, "Apple Is a Credit Card Company Now," 25 Mar. 2019 But statistics of hate crimes against Asians are alarmingly depressing. — Julia Felsenthal, Marie Claire, "Crazy Rich Asians Star Gemma Chan Joins the Royal Court in Mary Queen of Scots," 29 Nov. 2018 The implied accusations of elitism are strange and somewhat depressing, because the novel is not at all difficult to read or understand. — Sam Sacks, WSJ, "Fiction: A Critical Mass of Absurdist Misapprehensions," 30 Nov. 2018 For a young student, report-card season can be an exciting, stressful, or even depressing time of year. — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, "Wrong way: 2018 global CO₂ emissions tick up again," 6 Dec. 2018 That’s a pretty depressing outlook as far as matrimony is concerned. — Elizabeth Kiefer, Glamour, "My Millennial Divorce: A Week of Stories That Explore Uncoupling in a Modern World," 26 Nov. 2018 Rebecca Jennings Obviously your job is sometimes very depressing. — Rebecca Jennings, Vox, "Not even shopping locally can save your favorite mom-and-pop — the problem is much, much bigger than that.," 21 Nov. 2018 There are a lot of sad or depressing stories out there. — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, "There's a Reason Why You See the Same Women in All Those Hallmark Christmas Movies," 23 Nov. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'depressing.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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