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
Botch the process slightly and you’re left with a dull, depressing dough.
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Sonia Rao, Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2024
His songs with Hepcat helped so many of us in both joyous and even depressing times.
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Sonia Rao, Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2024
His songs with Hepcat helped so many of us in both joyous and even depressing times.
—Jessica Lipsky, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2024
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“Depressing.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/depressing. Accessed 3 May. 2024.
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