| 单词 | depressing |
| 释义 | depressing (once / 1385 pages) adj 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. WORD FAMILYdepressing: depressingly+/antidepressant: antidepressants/depress: depressant, depressed, depresses, depressing, depression, depressive, depressor/depressant: antidepressant, depressants/depressed: depressedly/depression: depressions/depressive: depressives/depressor: depressors USAGE EXAMPLESFriends with recent pneumonia experience confirmed this rather depressing outlook. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) As documented by the Center for American Progress, a prolonged foreclosure crisis was still depressing home values in those places. Salon(Dec 24, 2016) It’s already a stunningly depressing moment — and it hasn’t even begun. Salon(Dec 23, 2016) adj causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy the economic outlook is depressing Syn|Ant cheerless, uncheerful blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim, sorry causing dejection melancholy, somber, sombregrave or even gloomy in character unhappyexperiencing or marked by or causing sadness or sorrow or discontent joylessnot experiencing or inspiring joy cheerful being full of or promoting cheer; having or showing good spirits beaming, gladcheerful and bright beamish, smiling, twinklysmiling with happiness or optimism blithe, blithesome, light-hearted, lighthearted, lightsomecarefree and happy and lighthearted buoyant, chirpy, perkycharacterized by liveliness and lightheartedness cheery, gay, sunnybright and pleasant; promoting a feeling of cheer chipper, debonair, debonaire, jauntyhaving a cheerful, lively, and self-confident air happyenjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure gladshowing or causing joy and pleasure; especially made happy |
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