Synonyms for depressing
de·press·ing

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1. depressing

   Synonyms:
   disappointing, distressing, hateful, horrible, melancholy, miserable, mournful, painful, saddening, woful, wretched

   Antonyms:
   acceptable, agreeable, congenial, delicious, delightful, grateful, gratifying, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, refreshing, satisfying, welcome

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1. depressing, cheerless, uncheerfuladjective

   causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy

   "the economic outlook is depressing"; "something cheerless about the room"; "a moody and uncheerful person"; "an uncheerful place"

   Synonyms:
   uncheerful, cheerless

   Antonyms:
   beaming, debonair, smiling(a), lighthearted, perky, sunny, cheerful, beamish, debonaire, blithesome, buoyant, cheery, light-hearted, glad, blithe, jaunty, gay, chipper, chirpy, lightsome, twinkly

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1. List of paraphrases for "depressing":

   dismal, sad, disheartening, discouraging, disappointing, gloomy, frustrating, distressing, grim, dispiriting, demoralizing, bleak

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1. The Prime Minister:

   What Najib is doing is unprecedented in Malaysia, the people are at a loss as to what to do. The prospect of Najib continuing to rule this country is utterly depressing.

2. Oscar Levant:

   I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing the other patients.

3. Steve Jobs:

   When you’re young, you look at television and think, There’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want. That’s a far more depressing thought. Conspiracy is optimistic! You can shoot the bastards!

4. Adam Sandler:

   I think the distance between those two things was good. It let me look at it differently and allowed it to be funny. I think if had happened before, The Wedding Singer would have been one seriously depressing movie.

5. Jason Luckasevic:

   There's so much more that could have and should have been done for these players who suffer serious and permanent cognitive and behavioural mental handicaps, how about the guys that are out there that occasionally forget the name of their friend, or their grocery list and have days that are very dark and depressing because they are still living an independent life? They get nothing.