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单词 depressing
释义
Depressing
vverb.emotionlower someone's spirits; make downhearted
Synset:cast down deject demoralise demoralize depress dismay dispirit get down
Examples:
  • These news depressed her
  • The bad state of her child's health demoralizes her
Antonyms:elate
Derivationally Related Form:dejectiondemoralisationdepressantdismaydemoralization
Hypernyms:discourage
Inherited Hypernyms:depressdiscourage
Direct Hyponyms:chill
Full Troponyms:chill
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s somebody | Something ---s somebody | The performance is likely to --- Sue (apply to: get down, dismay) | The bad news will --- him (apply to: deject, dismay, dispirit, depress, demoralize)
vverb.motionlower (prices or markets)
Examples:
  • The glut of oil depressed gas prices
Hypernyms:bring down get down let down lower take down
Inherited Hypernyms:depresslowermove
Sentence Frame:Something ---s something
vverb.contactcause to drop or sink
Synset:depress lower
Examples:
  • The lack of rain had depressed the water level in the reservoir
Derivationally Related Form:lowerdepressorlowering
Hypernyms:alter change modify
Inherited Hypernyms:lowerchange
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s something | Something ---s something
vverb.contactpress down
Synset:depress press down
Examples:
  • Depress the space key
Derivationally Related Form:depressordepression
Hypernyms:displace move
Inherited Hypernyms:press downmove
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s something | Something ---s something
vverb.changelessen the activity or force of
Examples:
  • The rising inflation depressed the economy
Hypernyms:weaken
Inherited Hypernyms:depressweakenchange
Sentence Frame:Something ---s something
adjadj.allcausing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy
Attributes:cheer cheerfulness sunniness sunshine
Synset:cheerless uncheerful
Examples:
  • the economic outlook is depressing
  • something cheerless about the room
  • a moody and uncheerful person
  • an uncheerful place
Antonyms:cheerful
Derivationally Related Form:uncheerfulnesscheerlessness
Inherited Hypernyms:depressing
Similar to:blue dark dingy disconsolate dismal drab drear dreary gloomy grim sorry melancholy somber sombre
See also:joyless unhappy
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