Synonyms for depressing
- adjective
All synonyms
Adjective
1. Dismal — causing depression or sadness
dismal, gloomy, bleak, saddening, sad, melancholy, somber US, sombre UK, cheerless, mournful, wretched, dreary, grim, dull, tragic, discouraging, joyless, disconsolate, dark, unpleasant, distressing, sorrowful, doleful
Definitions
- adj. 1
Causing depression or sadness.
The television news was depressing, so rather than start crying I turned it off.
Example sentences
- bleak To some people, Algeria's future is looking bleak.
- somber We heard somber hollow sounds from the cave.
- mournful Tom stood at the window with a mournful expression on his face.
- saddening The indifference of Tom's obituary was saddening.
By length
- 3 letters
- sad1
- 4 letters
- dark1, dull1, grim1
- 5 letters
- bleak1
- 6 letters
- tragic2, gloomy2, dismal2, dreary2, somber2, sombre
- 7 letters
- joyless, doleful2
- 8 letters
- wretched2, mournful2
- 9 letters
- sorrowful3, saddening3, cheerless
- 10 letters
- unpleasant3, melancholy4
- 11 letters
- distressing3
- 12 letters
- discouraging4, disconsolate
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (tragic2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- déprimant
- Italiano
- deprimente
- Español
- deprimente