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Webster 1828 Edition

Depressing

DEPRESSING

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ppr.

Pressing down; lowering in place; letting fall; sinking; dejecting; abasing; impoverishing; rendering languid.

Definition 2024

depressing

depressing

English

Adjective

depressing ‎(comparative more depressing, superlative most depressing)

Causing depression or sadness.
The television news was depressing, so rather than start crying I turned it off.

Synonyms

unpleasant

Translations

Causing depression or sadness

Armenian:
Bulgarian: тягостен (bg) ‎(tjagosten), угнетителен (bg) ‎(ugnetitelen)
Catalan: depriment
Chinese:
Mandarin:
Esperanto:
Finnish: masentava (fi)

French: déprimant (fr)
Georgian:
Hebrew: מדכא (medake')
Italian: deprimente (it)
Khmer:
Portuguese: deprimente
Spanish: deprimente
Thai:
Vietnamese:

Verb

depressing

present participle of depress