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Adjective depressing has 2 senses
- blue, dark, depressing, disconsolate, dismal, dispiriting, gloomy, grim - 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"
Antonym: cheerful (indirect, via cheerless)
- depressing, depressive, gloomy, saddening - causing or suggestive of sorrow or gloom; "a gloomy outlook"; "gloomy news"
Antonym: glad (indirect, via sad)
Verb depress has 5 senses
- depress, deject, cast down, get down, dismay, dispirit, demoralize, demoralise - lower someone's spirits; make downhearted; "These news depressed her"; "The bad state of her child's health demoralizes her"
--1 is one way to discourage
Antonyms: elate, lift up, uplift, pick up, intoxicate
Sample sentence:
The bad news will depress him
- depress - lower (prices or markets); "The glut of oil depressed gas prices"
--2 is one way to lower, take down, let down, get down, bring down
Sample sentence:
Something ----s something
- lower, depress - cause to drop or sink; "The lack of rain had depressed the water level in the reservoir"
--3 is one way to change, alter, modify
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Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- press down, depress - press down; "Depress the space key"
--4 is one way to move, displace
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Somebody ----s something
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- depress - lessen the activity or force of; "The rising inflation depressed the economy"
--5 is one way to weaken
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Something ----s something
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