verb
- Lower someone's spirits; make downhearted.
- usage: "These news depressed her"; "The bad state of her child's health demoralizes her"
- synonyms: depress, deject, cast down, get down, dismay, dispirit, demoralize, demoralise
- Lower (prices or markets. )
- usage: "The glut of oil depressed gas prices"
- synonyms: depress
- 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"
- synonyms: press down, depress
- Lessen the activity or force of.
- usage: "The rising inflation depressed the economy"
- synonyms: depress
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"
- synonyms: cheerless, uncheerful
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
| APA | WordNet. (2010). depressing. Retrieved September 22, 2026, from http://smartdefine.org/depressing/definitions/1172252 |
| Chicago | WordNet. 2010. "depressing" http://smartdefine.org/depressing/definitions/1172252 (accessed September 22, 2026). |
| Harvard | WordNet 2010, depressing, Smart Define, viewed 22 September, 2026, <http://smartdefine.org/depressing/definitions/1172252>. |
| MLA | WordNet. "depressing" 23 October 2010. Web. 22 September 2026. <http://smartdefine.org/depressing/definitions/1172252> |