Synonyms of depressive

depressive

adjective

as in bleak

causing or marked by an atmosphere lacking in cheer

the depressive story about a struggling artist

Synonyms & Similar Words

• bleak
• depressing
• somber
• lonely
• dark
• darkening
• desolate
• morbid
• depressed
• murky
• lonesome
• grey
• gray
• cold
• solemn
• miserable
• black
• blue
• morose
• gloomy
• sullen
• sombre
• wretched
• melancholy
• cheerless
• sad
• lugubrious
• chill
• dreary
• dismal
• saturnine
• glum
• funereal
• oppressive
• elegiac
• disconsolate
• forlorn
• dire
• sepulchral
• drear
• comfortless
• cloudy
• melancholic
• unhappy
• plutonian
• negative
• elegiacal
• godforsaken
• desperate
• hopeless
• tenebrous
• dreich
• Cimmerian
• dull
• mournful
• dejected
• distressful
• pessimistic
• sunless
• woebegone
• despondent
• grim
• tenebrific
• inconsolable
• dim
• discouraging
• mirthless
• low
• distressing
• menacing
• hangdog
• droopy
• woeful
• dispiriting
• sorrowful
• upsetting
• dismaying
• discomfiting
• disheartening
• down
• lamentable
• drab
• dour
• plaintive
• colorless
• threatening
• lowering
• louring
• loury
• lowery

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• cheerful
• friendly
• bright
• gay
• cheery
• festive
• joyous
• sunshiny
• joyful
• comforting
• cordial
• gay
• merry
• buoyant
• jolly
• optimistic
• mirthful
• blithe
• hopeful
• encouraging
• heartwarming
• cheering
• blithesome
• jocund
• lighthearted
• lightsome

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• cheerful
• friendly
• bright
• gay
• cheery
• festive
• joyous
• sunshiny
• joyful
• comforting
• cordial
• gay
• merry
• buoyant
• jolly
• optimistic
• mirthful
• blithe
• hopeful
• encouraging
• heartwarming
• cheering
• blithesome
• jocund
• lighthearted
• lightsome

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