depressing
/dɪˈprɛsɪŋ
/adjective
1Causing or resulting in a feeling of miserable dejection: that thought is too depressing for words...
- For today was equally as depressing and miserable as the last ten months.
- Walking around the town centre last Saturday was a miserable, depressing experience.
- Why couldn't he leave me to my miserable depressing, but completely productive thoughts?
Synonyms
upsetting, distressing, painful, heartbreaking, heart-rending, dispiriting, disheartening, discouraging, demoralizing;
dismal, bleak, black, sombre, gloomy, grave, unhappy, melancholy, sad, saddening;
wretched, doleful;
daunting, disenchanting, unfavourable
informal morbid, blue
archaic dejecting
rare distressful, lachrymose
gloomy, bleak, dreary, grim, drab, sombre, dark, dingy, funereal, miserable, cheerless, joyless, comfortless, uninviting
literary drear
2Causing a damaging reduction in economic activity: the mortgage rate increase will have a depressing effect on the housing market...
- By doing this they will set in motion a depressing effect on economic activity some time in the future - more than likely in 12 months or so time.
- This is despite the fact that no account has been taken of the potentially depressing impact on economic activity and revenue buoyancy of their tax raising proposals.
- Higher interest rates, and the threat of further rises, have had a depressing effect on the market.