depressing
adjective
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
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- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 adjective
causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy
the economic outlook is depressing
Related & opposite
- unhappy also see
- joyless also see
- cheerful antonym
- cheerfulness attribute
- uncheerfulness derivation
- uncheerfulness derivation
- dismal similar to
- melancholy similar to
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | also see | Related & opposite | unhappy |
| 1 | also see | Related & opposite | joyless |
| 1 | antonym | Related & opposite | cheerful |
| 1 | attribute | Related & opposite | cheerfulness |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | uncheerfulness |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | uncheerfulness |
| 1 | similar to | Related & opposite | dismal |
| 1 | similar to | Related & opposite | melancholy |