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Synonyms for depressing
de·press·ing
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
depressing
Synonyms:
disappointing, distressing, hateful, horrible, melancholy, miserable, mournful, painful, saddening, woful, wretchedAntonyms:
acceptable, agreeable, congenial, delicious, delightful, grateful, gratifying, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, refreshing, satisfying, welcome
Princeton's WordNet
depressing, cheerless, uncheerfuladjective
causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy
"the economic outlook is depressing"; "something cheerless about the room"; "a moody and uncheerful person"; "an uncheerful place"
Synonyms:
uncheerful, cheerlessAntonyms:
beaming, debonair, smiling(a), lighthearted, perky, sunny, cheerful, beamish, debonaire, blithesome, buoyant, cheery, light-hearted, glad, blithe, jaunty, gay, chipper, chirpy, lightsome, twinkly
Editors Contribution
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PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "depressing":
dismal, sad, disheartening, discouraging, disappointing, gloomy, frustrating, distressing, grim, dispiriting, demoralizing, bleak
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#5071 | sad | |
#8709 | horrible | |
#9372 | painful | |
#14856 | grim | |
#15738 | frustrating | |
#15772 | disappointing | |
#17102 | miserable | |
#20906 | depressing | |
#25029 | bleak | |
#25291 | melancholy | |
#28539 | dismal | |
#28701 | gloomy | |
#30054 | hateful | |
#30945 | wretched | |
#36836 | discouraging | |
#42423 | distressing | |
#60125 | mournful | |
#76343 | disheartening | |
#109555 | demoralizing | |
#155391 | saddening | |
#176112 | cheerless | |
#190335 | dispiriting |
How to use depressing in a sentence?
Sitting at home all the time was getting depressing.
The fact that we haven't improved the mobile conversion rate is a little depressing to be honest.
The really depressing thing about her and Clinton World is you look at Trump and you look at her and you say, 'OK, it's apples to oranges. This person is prepared. She's experienced. She knows the world.' ... And then you wake up November whatever and Hillary Clinton is the next president and, you know, a lot of America is feeling good that, you know, this menace has been left at the door, and then you wake up and you see, you know, Sid Blumenthal and Mark Penn and, you know, David Brock lining up to become senior advisers to the president. And you're like, 'Oh, this is what we're all feeling good about?'.
We can see the sewage clearly, and we still come here - it costs us nothing, life is depressing and difficult and people have no escape but the sea.
That was like the most depressing part about it: He wasn't there, i was like this heartbroken 10-year-old.
Translations for depressing
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- тягостен, угнетителенBulgarian
- deprimentCatalan, Valencian
- deprimierendGerman
- deprimenteSpanish
- masentavaFinnish
- déprimantFrench
- deprimentePortuguese
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