Synonyms for Depressing:

• adj.

  •awful (adjective)
  • horrendous,
  • grody.
  •black (adjective)
  • sombrer,
  • sombre,
  • doleful.
  •boring (adjective)
  • humdrum,
  • insipid,
  • monotonous,
  • commonplace,
  • mundane,
  • dull,
  • tiresome,
  • dry,
  • prosaic,
  • tedious,
  • boring,
  • wearisome.
  •chill (adjective)
  • most uncompanionable,
  • un happiest,
  • re-served,
  • un happy,
  • un happier,
  • more unwelcoming,
  • un-happiest,
  • in different,
  • un-companionable,
  • un emotional,
  • solitary,
  • more uncompanionable,
  • un-responsive,
  • with-drawn,
  • un-genial,
  • un genial,
  • un welcoming,
  • un-emotional,
  • un-welcoming,
  • un-happy,
  • in-different,
  • most ungenial,
  • more ungenial,
  • un companionable,
  • un responsive,
  • re served,
  • with drawn,
  • un-happier,
  • most unwelcoming.
  •demoralizing (adjective)
  • de moralizing,
  • de-moralizing.
  •dim (adjective)
  • unpromising.
  •dire (adjective)
  • re-doubtable,
  • portentous,
  • un fortunate,
  • re doubtable,
  • un-fortunate,
  • ruinous,
  • more scowling,
  • more oppressing,
  • most scowling,
  • most oppressing.
  •disappointing (adjective)
  • unfulfilling,
  • falling short,
  • unsatisfying.
  •discouraging (adjective)
  • in opportune,
  • dis maying,
  • most hindering,
  • unpropitious,
  • dis heartening,
  • most repressing,
  • more offputting,
  • offputting,
  • more daunting,
  • most off putting,
  • un favorable,
  • off putting,
  • dis advantageous,
  • more hindering,
  • most daunting,
  • more repressing,
  • most dampening,
  • most offputting,
  • dis-heartening,
  • more dampening,
  • more disheartening,
  • un propitious,
  • more off-putting,
  • in-opportune,
  • more dismaying,
  • most off-putting,
  • most disheartening,
  • more dissuading,
  • un-propitious,
  • dis-advantageous,
  • most dissuading,
  • un-favorable,
  • most dismaying,
  • dis-maying,
  • re-pressing,
  • re pressing,
  • more off putting.
  •discouraging, upsetting (adjective)
  • hopeless,
  • Dejecting,
  • daunting.
  •dismal (adjective)
  • de pressed,
  • dis-agreeable,
  • de-pressed,
  • over cast,
  • dis agreeable,
  • in auspicious,
  • in-auspicious,
  • de-solate,
  • overcast,
  • in pits,
  • inauspicious,
  • de solate,
  • over-cast.
  •disturbing (adjective)
  • more discommoding,
  • most aggravating,
  • more troubling,
  • embarrassing,
  • in convenient,
  • troubling,
  • dis comforting,
  • most troubling,
  • more vexing,
  • more impeding,
  • Harassing,
  • dis-comforting,
  • more discomforting,
  • most discomforting,
  • more aggravating,
  • most agitating,
  • most harassing,
  • most impeding,
  • in-convenient,
  • more agitating,
  • more harassing,
  • most vexing,
  • most discommoding.
  •dreary (adjective)
  • un eventful,
  • un-eventful.
  •joyless (adjective)
  • mopier,
  • mopiest,
  • more depressant,
  • down mouth,
  • more dragged,
  • have blahs,
  • most dragged,
  • down the mouth,
  • more saddening,
  • most depressant,
  • mopey,
  • most saddening.
  •lugubrious (adjective)
  • Woful.
  •oppressive (adjective)
  • more superincumbent,
  • heavyhanded,
  • un-justest,
  • super incumbent,
  • Over-bearing,
  • un juster,
  • ex acting,
  • more confining,
  • most headache,
  • un-juster,
  • in human,
  • super-incumbent,
  • in-human,
  • heavy handed,
  • most confining,
  • over bearing,
  • most ironhanded,
  • more ironhanded,
  • most superincumbent,
  • more headache,
  • un just,
  • ex-acting,
  • un justest,
  • un-just.
  •Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • dismal,
  • stark,
  • nowhere,
  • uninspiring,
  • in the pits,
  • unenjoyable,
  • institutional,
  • awful,
  • undraped,
  • joyless,
  • upsetting,
  • ungenial,
  • oppressive,
  • perturbing,
  • unwelcoming,
  • disappointing,
  • troublous,
  • head ache,
  • disturbing,
  • dire,
  • dim,
  • unsettling,
  • down in mouth,
  • chill,
  • heart-rending,
  • dreary,
  • uninteresting,
  • superincumbent,
  • lugubrious,
  • demoralizing,
  • ho hum,
  • off-putting,
  • have the blahs,
  • big yawn,
  • Uncompanionable,
  • ironhanded,
  • rough going,
  • discouraging.
  •perturbing (adjective)
  • dis quieting,
  • dis-quieting.
  •sad (adjective)
  • tear jerking,
  • dis composing,
  • dis-composing,
  • more discomposing,
  • most heart rending,
  • tearful,
  • tearjerking,
  • un satisfactory,
  • more heart-rending,
  • most dejecting,
  • most heart-rending,
  • more heart rending,
  • most discomposing,
  • un-satisfactory,
  • more dejecting,
  • heart rending.
  •stark (adjective)
  • more unclothed,
  • un-draped,
  • more undraped,
  • un covered,
  • un draped,
  • most undraped,
  • un clad,
  • un-clad,
  • un-clothed,
  • most unclothed,
  • un clothed.
  •uninteresting (adjective)
  • most nowhere,
  • more nothing,
  • un-interesting,
  • un exciting,
  • unentertaining,
  • un-enjoyable,
  • prosiest,
  • more unentertaining,
  • most unentertaining,
  • un-inspiring,
  • more nowhere,
  • un inspiring,
  • more unenjoyable,
  • in-sipid,
  • most unenjoyable,
  • un entertaining,
  • most uninspiring,
  • most nothing,
  • un enjoyable,
  • more uninspiring,
  • un interesting,
  • in sipid,
  • un-entertaining,
  • un-exciting.
  •unsettling (adjective)
  • un settling,
  • un-settling.
  •upsetting (adjective)
  • up setting,
  • up-setting.

• n.

  •
  • terrible.
  •Other relevant words: (noun)
  • demoralized,
  • dolorogenic,
  • blue,
  • unmentionable,
  • distressful,
  • piteous,
  • haughty,
  • Hauteur,
  • dismaying,
  • ego trip,
  • agonizing,
  • black,
  • pompous,
  • bumptious,
  • poignant,
  • egoism,
  • depressingly,
  • brass neck,
  • poisonous,
  • miserable,
  • Staggered,
  • horrified,
  • wretched,
  • devastating,
  • uncheerful,
  • cold,
  • egotism,
  • imperious,
  • pathetic,
  • moving,
  • funereal,
  • depressant,
  • gut-wrenching,
  • melancholic,
  • vanity,
  • cutting,
  • saddening,
  • superiority complex,
  • lamentable,
  • grievous,
  • painful,
  • shockingly,
  • disconsolate,
  • uncomfortable,
  • self-importance,
  • sad,
  • disheartening,
  • bruising,
  • woeful,
  • mournful,
  • afflictive,
  • Discomforting,
  • traumatic,
  • grim,
  • arrogant,
  • distressing,
  • Dolorific,
  • egocentric,
  • pitiable,
  • narcissism,
  • immodest,
  • egomania,
  • sorrowful,
  • heartbreaking,
  • sharp,
  • depressive,
  • supercilious,
  • affecting,
  • bitter,
  • horrifying,
  • bombast,
  • harrowing,
  • dark,
  • ego,
  • deplorable,
  • officious,
  • regrettable,
  • rueful,
  • baleful,
  • woebegone,
  • somber,
  • disrespect,
  • cheerless,
  • comfortless,
  • bleak,
  • dolorous,
  • pride,
  • down,
  • condescend,
  • shocking,
  • conceit,
  • Triste,
  • lofty,
  • self-satisfied,
  • sore,
  • brash,
  • exceptionable,
  • melancholy,
  • cloud,
  • superiority,
  • hurtful,
  • tragic,
  • hubris,
  • dispiriting,
  • touching,
  • dispirited,
  • gloomy.

• v.

  •de-motivating (verb)
  • throttling,
  • Paralyzing,
  • curbing,
  • Hampering,
  • de-motivating,
  • hindering,
  • stifling,
  • frustrating,
  • impeding.
  •depressing (verb)
  • lowering,
  • Attenuating,
  • decreasing,
  • debasing,
  • sinking.
  •dissuading (verb)
  • inhibiting,
  • banning,
  • chilling,
  • Restraining,
  • Preventing,
  • Checking,
  • Dissuading,
  • barring,
  • Deterring,
  • admonishing,
  • Derailing,
  • Disinclining,
  • Deflecting,
  • diverting,
  • averting,
  • intimidating,
  • dampening.
  •lowering (verb)
  • shortening,
  • Plunging,
  • dropping,
  • deepening,
  • submerging.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • melting,
  • moody,
  • unhappy,
  • shattering,
  • soul-destroying,
  • unfortunate,
  • lachrymose,
  • sadly.
  •
  • bittersweet,
  • sentimental.
  •affecting
  • pitiful.
  •Other relevant words (noun):
  • desolate,
  • spooky,
  • Allaying,
  • cloudy,
  • lessening,
  • sorry,
  • calming,
  • soiled,
  • austere,
  • colored,
  • risque,
  • forbidding,
  • declining,
  • catastrophic,
  • unrelenting,
  • cranky,
  • diminishing,
  • ravaged,
  • bad-tempered,
  • gamy,
  • calamitous,
  • grumpy,
  • forlorn,
  • heavy,
  • cumbersome,
  • anodyne,
  • wearying,
  • sunless,
  • reducing,
  • shadowy,
  • intolerable,
  • excruciating,
  • crotchety,
  • ill-starred,
  • foreboding,
  • crushing,
  • dreadful,
  • macabre,
  • abating,
  • inhospitable,
  • Oppressing,
  • inconsolable,
  • unpleasant,
  • dingy,
  • grey,
  • racking,
  • soporific,
  • unbearable,
  • inexorable,
  • sober,
  • grisly,
  • overpowering,
  • distressed,
  • sepulchral,
  • coloured,
  • pitchy,
  • sulky,
  • petulant,
  • Pouting,
  • Subfuscous,
  • Dismounting,
  • crabby,
  • low,
  • blueish,
  • lifeless,
  • puritan,
  • benighted,
  • gentle,
  • racy,
  • drab,
  • overwhelming,
  • discoloured,
  • glum,
  • clouded,
  • glooming,
  • ghastly,
  • pressing,
  • burdensome,
  • sinister,
  • ill-humoured,
  • antisocial,
  • grim-faced,
  • perverse,
  • Languishing,
  • Debauching,
  • bluish,
  • Depraving,
  • Abasing,
  • Burdening,
  • tyrannical,
  • calmative,
  • downbeat,
  • weakening,
  • pushing,
  • inky,
  • Profaning,
  • horrible,
  • cross,
  • humbling,
  • narcotic,
  • grave,
  • lonesome,
  • dour,
  • aristocratic,
  • sleep-inducing,
  • ill-omened,
  • lenitive,
  • pessimistic,
  • faded,
  • enervating,
  • tragical,
  • blasphemous,
  • obscure,
  • teary,
  • louring,
  • corrupting,
  • hypnotic,
  • Commencing,
  • darkling,
  • churlish,
  • downhearted,
  • sordid,
  • ill-tempered,
  • glowering,
  • stygian,
  • heavyhearted,
  • Star-crossed,
  • spicy,
  • alarming,
  • exhausting,
  • hapless,
  • sedative,
  • subfusc,
  • relentless,
  • debilitating,
  • disapproving,
  • soothing,
  • heartrending,
  • profane,
  • smudgy,
  • repressive,
  • closed,
  • unlucky,
  • harsh,
  • Dissatisfying,
  • splenetic,
  • unappeasable,
  • Afflicting,
  • onerous,
  • unhopeful,
  • appalling,
  • dyspeptic,
  • mortifying,
  • disastrous,
  • misty,
  • tenebrous,
  • mordant,
  • dusky,
  • flat,
  • degrading,
  • unlighted,
  • deflating,
  • juicy,
  • misdirecting,
  • drear,
  • choleric,
  • despairing,
  • darkening,
  • brutal,
  • solemn,
  • starting,
  • puritanical,
  • murky,
  • grey-brown,
  • Darksome,
  • sooty,
  • gray,
  • sulking,
  • unforgiving,
  • unlit,
  • unsociable,
  • abject,
  • dreich,
  • Tranquillizing,
  • deadening,
  • lacklustre,
  • Flattening,
  • empty,
  • opiate,
  • stern,
  • relaxing,
  • peevish,
  • crusty,
  • tormenting,
  • saturnine,
  • grimy,
  • serious,
  • naughty,
  • cimmerian,
  • base,
  • gruesome,
  • unendurable,
  • smoky,
  • foggy,
  • brooding,
  • morbid,
  • Perverting,
  • barren,
  • Subduing,
  • downcast,
  • quelling,
  • sullen,
  • vacant,
  • leaden,
  • frowning,
  • ill-natured,
  • ill-fated,
  • severe,
  • depressed,
  • morose,
  • Damping,
  • sour,
  • dirty,
  • dusk,
  • secret,
  • dejected,
  • temperamental,
  • demoralising.

Paraphrases for Depressing:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    disheartening, dispiriting, dreary.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    depressed, disturbing, worrying, sickening, appalling, alarming, sinister, pitiful, sombre, tiresome, disquieting, sobering, boring, Saddened, annoying, tiring, embarrassing, sorry, dire, pessimistic, disgraceful, woeful, shocking, disappointed, negative, regretful.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    decreasing, Deterring, pressurising, reducing, disheartening, pressuring, lowering, dropping, discouraging, snapping, squeezing, Discounting, Pinching, narrowing, Lobbying, falling, saddening, dispiriting, disturbing, worrying.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    distressing, discouraging, disappointing, sad, frustrating, dismal, gloomy, grim, deplorable, bleak, saddening, regrettable, daunting, lamentable, unfortunate, depressive, pathetic, sorrowful, miserable, tragic, disheartened, painful, unhappy, dark.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    pushing.

Antonyms for Depressing:

• adj.

  • discouraging, upsetting
    exhilarating, glad, happy, cheerful, joyful, encouraging, sunny, cheering, light, pleasant, bright, comforting.
  • Other antonyms:
    joyous, optimistic, stimulating, cordial, stirring, inspiring, uplifting, friendly, sunshiny, thrilling, agreeable, welcome.

• n.

  • other_words
    light-colored, lighting.

Homophones for Depressing:

• day of reckoning, diverseness, data processing, divergence, diverging, divergency.