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English
Pronunciation
Adjective
depressing (comparative more depressing, superlative most depressing)
- Causing depression or sadness.
The television news was depressing, so rather than start crying I turned it off.
- Causing a reduction in economic activity.
The policy may have a depressing effect on some branches of industry.
Synonyms
Translations
causing depression or sadness
- Armenian: please add this translation if you can
- Belarusian: гнятлі́вы (hnjatlívy)
- Bulgarian: тягостен (bg) (tjagosten), угнетителен (bg) (ugnetitelen)
- Catalan: depriment (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 令人沮喪的/令人沮丧的 (lìngrén jǔsàng de)
- Dutch: deprimerend (nl)
- Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: masentava (fi)
- French: déprimant (fr)
- Galician: deprimente (gl)
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: deprimierend (de), bedrückend (de)
- Greek: καταθλιπτικός (el) (katathliptikós)
- Hebrew: מדכא (he) (medake')
- Hungarian: nyomasztó (hu), lehangoló (hu), deprimáló
- Irish: gruama
- Italian: deprimente (it)
- Khmer: please add this translation if you can
- Plautdietsch: bedrekjent
- Portuguese: deprimente
- Russian: гнету́щий (ru) (gnetúščij), тя́гостный (ru) (tjágostnyj), уны́лый (ru) (unýlyj), наводя́щий тоску́ (navodjáščij toskú), депресси́вный (ru) (depressívnyj), удруча́ющий (ru) (udručájuščij)
- Spanish: deprimente
- Swedish: deprimerande (sv), deppig (sv) (colloquial)
- Thai: น่าหดหู่, น่าเศร้า
- Ukrainian: гнітю́чий (hnitjúčyj), тужли́вий (uk) (tužlývyj), похму́рий (poxmúryj), сумни́й (sumnýj)
- Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
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causing a reduction in economic activity
Verb
depressing
- present participle and gerund of depress
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