What is the meaning of depressing?

verb

  • Lower someone's spirits; make downhearted.
    • usage: "These news depressed her"; "The bad state of her child's health demoralizes her"
  • Lower (prices or markets. )
    • usage: "The glut of oil depressed gas prices"
  • Cause to drop or sink.
    • usage: "The lack of rain had depressed the water level in the reservoir"
  • Press down.
    • usage: "Depress the space key"
  • Lessen the activity or force of.
    • usage: "The rising inflation depressed the economy"

adjective

  • Causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy.
    • usage: "the economic outlook is depressing"; "something cheerless about the room"; "a moody and uncheerful person"; "an uncheerful place"
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