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depressingadjective causing or marked by an atmosphere lacking in cheerthe 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, woefuldim, discomfiting, discouraging, disheartening, dismaying, dispiriting, distressful, distressing, upsettingdesperate, hopeless, pessimisticlamentable, mournful, plaintive, sorrowfulcolorless, drab, dulldour, grim, lowering(also louring), lowery(also loury), menacing, negative, oppressive, threatening bright, cheerful, cheering, cheery, comforting, cordial, festive, friendly, gay, heartwarming, sunshiny blithe, blithesome, buoyant, gay, jocund, jolly, joyful, joyous, merry, mirthfulencouraging, hopeful, optimisticlighthearted, lightsome causing unhappinessmore depressing news about the famine overseas dismal, drear, dreary, heartbreaking, heartrending, melancholy, mournful, pathetic, sad, saddening, sorry, tearful, teary deplorable, distressful, grievous, lamentable, unfortunate, woefuldiscomforting, discomposing, disquieting, distressing, disturbing, perturbingaffecting, moving, poignant, touchingdiscouraging, disheartening, dispiriting cheering, cheery, glad, happy heartening, heartwarming, inspiring, stimulating, stirring, upliftingagreeable, delightful, enjoyable, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, satisfying, welcomeexhilarating, thrilling depressingverbpresent participle of depressto make sadthe thought of once again failing the bar exam depressed me bumming (out), burdening, dashing, dejecting, getting down, oppressing, saddening, weighing down ailing, distressing, troublingafflicting, tormenting, torturingdaunting, demoralizing, discouraging, disheartening, dismaying, dispiriting, getting down, unnervingagitating, bothering, concerning, discomforting, discomposing, disquieting, disturbing, exercising, freaking (out), perturbing, undoing, unhinging, unsettling, upsetting, worrying brightening, buoying, cheering (up), gladdening, lightening, rejoicing animating, enlivening, invigoratingassuring, comforting, consoling, reassuring, solacing, soothingexciting, inspiring, stimulatingelating, exhilaratingencouraging, hearteningdelighting, gratifying, pleasingboosting, elevating, lifting, uplifting to cause to fall intentionally or unintentionallyconstruction workers depressed the roadbed in order to make way for an overpass dropping, lowering, throwing, throwing down flattening, flooring, leveling(or levelling)knocking down, knocking over, striking down, topplingplopping, plunking down(or plonking down)bobbling, bungling, foozling, fumblingimmersing, sinking, submerging lifting, picking up, raising to diminish the price or value ofthe glut of wheat on the market has depressed that commodity for most of the past year attenuating, breaking, cheapening, depreciating, devaluating, devaluing, downgrading, lowering, marking down, reducing, sinking, writing down, writing off debasing, demonetizingunderestimating, underpricing, underrating, undervaluingabridging, compressing, contracting, de-escalating, deflating, downsizing, dwindling, lessening, moderating, shrinking appreciating, enhancing, marking up, upgrading bloating, blowing up, inflatingoverestimating, overpricing, overrating, overvaluingadding, aggrandizing, amplifying, augmenting, ballooning, boosting, compounding, dilating, enlarging, escalating, expanding, extending, heightening, increasing, maximizing, multiplying, raising, swelling, upping to push steadily against with some forcedepressed the lever to start the machine bearing (down on), pressing, shoving, weighing (on or upon) compressing, mashing, punching, squashing, squeezing, squishing, squooshingcompelling, forcing, pressuringleaning (on or against), musclingdriving, propelling, thrustingcompacting, condensing, constricting, contracting, crushing, scrunching, wringingcramming, jamming, jam-packing, packing, stuffing, wedging in 1629 |