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Depressing

adjective

1.

Causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy. Synonyms: cheerless, uncheerful. "Something cheerless about the room" , "A moody and uncheerful person" , "An uncheerful place"

Depress

verb

(past & past part. depressed; pres. part. depressing)

1.

Lower someone's spirits; make downhearted. Synonyms: cast down, deject, demoralise, demoralize, dismay, dispirit, get down. "The bad state of her child's health demoralizes her"

2.

Lower (prices or markets).

3.

Cause to drop or sink. Synonym: lower.

4.

Press down. Synonym: press down.

5.

Lessen the activity or force of.

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"Depressing" Quotes from Famous Books

... for the open market, is in the production of articles for which there is a steadily growing demand within this country. Even in this case the utmost care should be exercised to prevent the products of assisted labour from so depressing prices as to injure the wages of outside ...

— Problems of Poverty • John A. Hobson

... enemy daily along the Thiaumont-Vaux front. Their "nibbling" process went on unceasingly, seizing some hundred yards of trenches, or taking batches of 200 or 300 prisoners with such frequency as to produce a decidedly depressing effect on the German commanders and on their troops, who in this sector represented the ...

— The Story of the Great War, Volume VI (of VIII) - History of the European War from Official Sources • Various

... have fooled it off well enough; and yet, Alan, all is not at ease within me. I am affected with a sense of loneliness, the more depressing, that it seems to me to be a solitude peculiarly my own. In a country where all the world have a circle of consanguinity, extending to sixth cousins at least, I am a solitary individual, having only one kind heart to throb in unison with my own. If I were ...

— Redgauntlet • Sir Walter Scott

... characteristics of the regular soldier. He is quick to discover himself aggrieved, but is readily appeased if he feels that his officer is really doing his best for him, and that both of them are the victims of a higher power. On the other hand, he is often amazingly cheerful under uncomfortable and depressing surroundings. He is growing quite fastidious, too, about his personal appearance when off duty. (You should see our quiffs on Saturdays!) He is quite incapable of keeping possession of his clothing, his boots, his rifle, his health, or anything ...

— The First Hundred Thousand • Ian Hay

... inevitable evils, it was yet more noble to undergo them voluntarily with an equal fortitude. But even if Epaphroditus were not guilty of breaking the leg of Epictetus, it is clear that the life of the poor youth was surrounded by circumstances of the most depressing and miserable character; circumstances which would have forced an ordinary man to the low and animal level of existence which appears to have contented the great majority of Roman slaves. Some of the passages in which ...

— Seekers after God • Frederic William Farrar

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