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depressing

[dih-pres-ing]

adjective

  1. serving to depress; inducing a state of depression.

    depressing news.



depressing

/ ɪˈɛɪŋ /

adjective

  1. causing a feeling of dejection or low spirits

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Other Word Forms

  • depressingly adverb
  • nondepressing adjective
  • nondepressingly adverb
  • undepressing adjective
  • ˈԲ adverb
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Word History and Origins

Origin of depressing1

First recorded in 1780–90; depress + -ing 2
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Example Sentences

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He added the number of parties involved could be "depressing for a shared owner; that feeling of being passed from pillar to post and being fobbed off at different parts of the process".

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The fact that educators and students are allegedly the groups most suspicious of ChatGPT’s fondness for em dashes also makes inherent, if depressing, sense.

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"Two or three weeks later you're sitting in temporary accommodation, looking at four walls. You've got no furniture of your own. You're surrounded by boxes. And it's like, 'oh man, this is depressing'."

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"Day to day it is depressing, because you don't hear anything back, you're constantly trying to find a job, trying to fight for a job, and you hear nothing."

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“I hate to sound so depressing,” he adds.

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