Thesaurus
depressing
Synonyms and Antonyms of depressing
- the depressing atmosphere of the empty mall
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
blue, dejected, depressed, despondent, down, droopy, hangdog, inconsolable, low, melancholic, melancholy, mirthless, sad, unhappy, woebegone, woeful
dim, discomfiting, discouraging, disheartening, dismaying, dispiriting, distressful, distressing, upsetting
desperate, hopeless, pessimistic
lamentable, mournful, plaintive, sorrowful
dour, grim, lowering (also louring), lowery (also loury), menacing, negative, oppressive, threatening
- more depressing news about the famine overseas
Synonyms and Antonyms of depressing
- the thought of once again failing the bar exam depressed me
ailing, distressing, troubling
afflicting, tormenting, torturing
daunting, demoralizing, discouraging, disheartening, dismaying, dispiriting, getting down, unnerving
agitating, bothering, concerning, discomforting, discomposing, disquieting, disturbing, exercising, freaking (out), perturbing, undoing, unhinging, unsettling, upsetting, worrying
- construction workers depressed the roadbed in order to make way for an overpass
- the glut of wheat on the market has depressed that commodity for most of the past year
- depressed the lever to start the machine
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