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depressing

dep·res·sing

UK/dɪˈpɹɛsɪŋ(ɡ)/ US/dɪˈpɹɛsɪŋ/ fairly common

adjective

1.

causing dejection

  • “a blue day”
  • “the dark days of the war”
  • “a week of rainy depressing weather”
  • “a disconsolate winter landscape”
  • “the first dismal dispiriting days of November”
  • “a dark gloomy day”
  • “grim rainy weather”
2.

causing or suggestive of sorrow or gloom

  • “a gloomy outlook”
  • “gloomy news”

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