All depressing synonyms
de·press·ing
D d adj depressing
- distressing — great pain, anxiety, or sorrow; acute physical or mental suffering; affliction; trouble.
- dreary — causing sadness or gloom.
- sad — Systems Analysis Definition
- heartbreaking — causing intense anguish or sorrow.
- gloomy — dark or dim; deeply shaded: gloomy skies.
- dismal — causing gloom or dejection; gloomy; dreary; cheerless; melancholy: dismal weather.
- dispiriting — to deprive of spirit, hope, enthusiasm, etc.; depress; discourage; dishearten.
- bleak — If a situation is bleak, it is bad, and seems unlikely to improve.
- disheartening — to depress the hope, courage, or spirits of; discourage.
- daunting — Something that is daunting makes you feel slightly afraid or worried about dealing with it.
- black — lacking hue and brightness; absorbing light without reflecting any of the rays composing it.
- saddening — causing someone to become sad
- funereal — of or suitable for a funeral.
- hopeless — providing no hope; beyond optimism or hope; desperate: a hopeless case of cancer.
- joyless — without joy or gladness; unhappy: the joyless days of the war.
- melancholy — sober thoughtfulness; pensiveness.
- oppressive — burdensome, unjustly harsh, or tyrannical: an oppressive king; oppressive laws.
- somber — gloomily dark; shadowy; dimly lighted: a somber passageway.
- melancholic — disposed to or affected with melancholy; gloomy.
adjective depressing
- miserable — wretchedly unhappy, uneasy, or uncomfortable: miserable victims of war.
- discouraging — to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit.
- disappointing — failing to fulfill one's hopes or expectations: a disappointing movie; a disappointing marriage.
- upsetting — overturned: an upset milk pail.
- dejecting — (rare) present participle of deject.