depressing
adjUK /dɪˈpɹɛsɪŋ(ɡ)/ · US /dɪˈpɹɛsɪŋ/
1
Causing depression or sadness.
- The television news was depressing, so rather than start crying I turned it off.
2
Causing a reduction in economic activity.
- The policy may have a depressing effect on some branches of industry.
- Synonyms
- grim
- Derived terms
- depressingly, depressingness, superdepressing, undepressing