Hyper Dictionary

English Dictionary Computer Dictionary Thesaurus Dream Dictionary Medical Dictionary


Search Dictionary:  

Meaning of DEPRESSING

Pronunciation:  dupr'esing

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [adj]  causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather"
  2. [adj]  causing or suggestive of sorrow or gloom; "a gloomy outlook"; "gloomy news"
 
 Websites: 
 
 Synonyms: blue, cheerless, dark, depressive, disconsolate, dismal, dispiriting, gloomy, grim, sad, saddening, uncheerful
 

 

 

Thesaurus Terms
 
 Related Terms: affecting, afflictive, bitter, black, bleak, cheerless, comfortless, deplorable, depressant, depressive, discomforting, discouraging, disheartening, dismal, dismaying, dispiriting, distressful, distressing, dolorific, dolorogenic, dolorous, down, dreary, funereal, grievous, joyless, lamentable, melancholic, melancholy, mournful, moving, oppressive, painful, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, poignant, regrettable, rueful, sad, saddening, sharp, somber, sore, sorrowful, touching, triste, uncomfortable, woebegone, woeful, wretched
 

 

 

 

COPYRIGHT © 2000-2003 WEBNOX CORP. HOME | ABOUT HYPERDICTIONARY