depressingde‧press‧ing /dɪˈpresɪŋ/ ●●○ adjective 
Examples
It’s a depressing thought. The whole experience was very depressing.—depressingly adverb: depressingly poor results
ExamplesEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
Thesaurus- I find it really depressing that my old neighborhood has gotten so run-down.
- It's such a depressing town - it's full of ugly, disused factories.
- It was a depressing book.
- Listening to the news can be really depressing, when all you ever hear about is violence and crime.
- The Deerhunter was a very depressing movie about Vietnam.
- Blanche visited one which met in a room above a pub in Clapham on a Friday night but found the experience depressing.
- Don't you find that depressing?
- I doubt if my picture, though depressing, is too gloomy.
- It was, Greg Hocking thought, both depressing and familiar.
- Situated on the ground floor of the prison, it is dark, depressing and claustrophobic.
- There was something about Chilete and the cloud-mist drizzle of that dreadful morning that was utterly depressing.
- Unfortunately, there is still a depressing number of poor quality certified organic wines around.
- We had tea in the dining-room, a depressing room which looked into a court.
Longman Language Activatormaking you feel sad► sad
Collocations use this about a story, piece of music, period of time etc that makes you feel sad: sad time/day/moment/occasion etc: · The day her son left home was one of the saddest days of her life.sad news/story/song etc: · Fairuz sang a sad song that made us all feel homesick.· I don't like movies with sad endings.it is sad that: · It's very sad that she died before her children grew up.
► unhappy: unhappy childhood/marriage/year etc a time when you are unhappy because you are in a difficult or unpleasant situation: · Phil was married for three unhappy years.· Looking at that photo always bring back unhappy memories.· an unhappy love affair
► depressing a depressing experience, story, piece of news etc makes you feel that there is nothing to be happy about and not much hope for the future: · The Deerhunter was a very depressing movie about Vietnam.· It's such a depressing town - it's full of ugly, disused factories.· Listening to the news can be really depressing, when all you ever hear about is violence and crime.
► upsetting an upsetting experience or event makes you feel very sad and often shocked: · Seeing her lying there in a hospital bed was a very upsetting experience.· She can't talk about her son's death - she finds it too upsetting.it is upsetting to find/know/learn etc something: · It's very upsetting to arrive home and find that your house has been burgled.
► miserable a time that is miserable is one when you are extremely unhappy because you are in a very unpleasant situation: · Factory workers during the 18th century led miserable lives.· The journey home was miserable. Everyone was depressed about losing the game.
► heartbreaking/heart-rending a story, event, piece of news etc that is heartbreaking makes you feel extremely sad and sorry or extremely disappointed: · It's a heartbreaking moment when a great sportsman finally decides that it's time to quit.· The decision to kill the infected animals was a heart-rending one for farmers.it is heartbreaking to see/learn etc something: · Having worked so hard to start the business, it would be heartbreaking to see it all collapse.
► dismal a dismal place, situation, or time makes you feel unhappy and not at all hopeful: · It was a grey, dismal November afternoon.· Melinda joined her husband in Moscow, but soon found life there bleak and dismal.· The profit margin on hardware sales for the first quarter was a dismal 29%.
► dreary a place, activity, or time that is dreary is not at all interesting or enjoyable and makes you feel unhappy: · This room is so dreary. How can we brighten it up?· a dreary winter's day· Cooking for one person can be a dreary business, as many elderly people find.
► bleak a place or situation that is bleak is one in which there is nothing to make you feel cheerful or hopeful about the future: · The wild landscape was bleak and bare.· He gazed around the empty, bleak little room in despair.· Many people were facing a financially bleak Christmas.· The chief executive said that the company was looking at a bleak future.the outlook/prospect/future etc is bleak : · Prospects of success looked bleak as the opposition scored the first two goals.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB► more
Word family· Uncle Rory could not be more depressing than reality was, just now.· When the young unemployed include graduates with valuable knowledge, it is even more depressing.· It might have been more depressing if I had been otherwise ready to leave.· There is nothing more depressing than sitting and watching the paper peel off the walls.· They were older, more overcrowded, less well furnished, more depressing, and so on.· Perhaps more depressing than actual shortages of provision is the tendency to alienate the old in contemporary society.· Can you imagine anything more depressing?
► most· Her therapist, she thought, was the most depressing person she knew, and that was saying something.
► so· There's nothing quite so depressing as watching your tan fade along with the memories of that wonderful holiday.
► very· However, sunshine was a sparse commodity and we found the short, dark winter days of these latitudes very depressing at first.· It can be very depressing watching these magnificent warriors being crushed by falling boulders.
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making you feel very sad: It’s a depressing thought. The whole experience was very depressing.—depressingly adverb: depressingly poor results