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.
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Loading your audio article The national election news was downright depressing for many in the Bay Area, but there was a lot of cause for celebration among local candidates Tuesday night.
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Sal Pizarro, The Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2024
Dreadful game of the week: Cleveland Browns at Philadelphia Eagles — The Browns are just depressing, saddled with the debacle that is the acquisition of quarterback Deshaun Watson, whose numbers are just dreadful.
—Jim Reineking, USA TODAY, 11 Oct. 2024
This is staggeringly depressing for someone like me who spends a large part of his working life trying to convey the basics of security hygiene to a non-technical audience.
—Davey Winder, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
Spencer’s saga is a depressing tale of a rushed and incomplete police investigation, a lousy defense attorney, prosecutorial misconduct, false testimony, and witnesses compromised by cash rewards.
—Terry W., The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Oct. 2024
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Sal Pizarro, The Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2024
Dreadful game of the week: Cleveland Browns at Philadelphia Eagles — The Browns are just depressing, saddled with the debacle that is the acquisition of quarterback Deshaun Watson, whose numbers are just dreadful.
—Jim Reineking, USA TODAY, 11 Oct. 2024
This is staggeringly depressing for someone like me who spends a large part of his working life trying to convey the basics of security hygiene to a non-technical audience.
—Davey Winder, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
Spencer’s saga is a depressing tale of a rushed and incomplete police investigation, a lousy defense attorney, prosecutorial misconduct, false testimony, and witnesses compromised by cash rewards.
—Terry W., The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Oct. 2024
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“Depressing.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/depressing. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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