What does Depressing mean?

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Princeton's WordNet

  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"

Wiktionary

  1. depressingadjective

    Causing depression or sadness.

    The television news was depressing, so rather than start crying I turned it off.

ChatGPT

  1. depressing

    Depressing typically refers to something that causes or induces a state of unhappiness or despondency. It can pertain to any situation, event, thing or condition that triggers sadness, despair, hopelessness or a gloomy mood.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Depressing

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Depressing in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Depressing in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of Depressing in a Sentence

  1. Harald Loehlein:

    You can go outside and move around a bit if it's warm, but your whole life happens inside in winter and that makes living in such close quarters even more depressing.

  2. Elaine Santore:

    Either people would take the flowers or they would be filled in. the winter was so hard on everybody and so depressing.

  3. Jason Luckasevic:

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

  4. Paul Fussell:

    I find nothing more depressing than optimism.

  5. Oluseun Onigbinde:

    This was really depressing when we expected that this should be a total shift from the wasteful culture that we had in the past.

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