depressing
adjective
1. causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy
- the economic outlook is depressing
Similar word(s): blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim, sorry, melancholy, somber, sombre, unhappy, joyless, cheerless, uncheerful
Sentences with depressing as an adjective:
- The television news was depressing, so rather than start crying I turned it off.
verb
1. present participle of depress