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. 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 behavioral mental handicaps, how about the guys that [...] have days that are very dark and depressing because they are still living an independent life? They get nothing.

2. Luis Buñuel:

   The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.

3. Colleague Jim Swift:

   As a former staffer myself, this must be a really depressing job. Ideally, young people go to work in Congress because they want to make a difference.

4. President Mandela:

   It got a bit depressing to see that nothing much was changing, it was hard to find positive aspects out in the townships to photograph and to celebrate.

5. Jonah Peretti:

   I think that there are two paths for AI in digital media, one path is the obvious path that a lot of people will do — but it’s a depressing path — using the technology for cost savings and spamming out a bunch of SEO articles that are lower quality than what a journalist could do, but a tenth of the cost. That’s one vision, but to me, that’s a depressing vision and a shortsighted vision because in the long run it’s not going to work.