depressing

/dɪˈprɛsɪŋ/

/dɪˈprɛsɪŋ/

Depressing things make you feel sad or inadequate, possibly because they serve as reminders of weaknesses or defects. For example, it can be depressing to be around a happy family when all your relatives are fighting with each other.

If a friend acts as if something is depressing him, you might ask, "What's bringing you down?" In fact depress comes from the Latin word depremere, meaning "to press down." Depressing things make you feel like your spirits are low or your heart is heavy. Something depressing weighs you down, just as something happy tends to boost you or make you feel like you are flying high.

Definitions of depressing

1. adjective

   causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy
   “the economic outlook is depressing”

   synonyms: cheerless, uncheerful

   blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim, sorry

   causing dejection

   melancholy, somber, sombre

   grave or even gloomy in character

   unhappy

   experiencing or marked by or causing sadness or sorrow or discontent

   joyless

   not experiencing or inspiring joy

   antonyms:

   cheerful

   being full of or promoting cheer; having or showing good spirits

   beaming, glad

   cheerful and bright

   beamish, smiling, twinkly

   smiling with happiness or optimism

   blithe, blithesome, light-hearted, lighthearted, lightsome

   carefree and happy and lighthearted

   buoyant, chirpy, perky

   characterized by liveliness and lightheartedness

   cheery, gay, sunny

   bright and pleasant; promoting a feeling of cheer

   chipper, debonair, debonaire, jaunty

   having a cheerful, lively, and self-confident air

   happy

   enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure

   glad

   showing or causing joy and pleasure; especially made happy