Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Causing especially emotional depression.
- adjective Dismal; dreary.
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- adjective Causing
depression orsadness . - verb Present participle of
depress .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy
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Examples
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The report, which he described as depressing, also showed that those left in schools would not acquire the necessary education at the primary, junior and secondary levels.
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What makes the situation depressing is when we put our interpretations on their life.
Lisa Haisha: What's Holding You Back From Changing the World? Lisa Haisha 2010
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What makes the situation depressing is when we put our interpretations on their life.
Lisa Haisha: What's Holding You Back From Changing the World? Lisa Haisha 2010
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The thing I find depressing is how the current system rewards illegality.
Thoughts on Immigration, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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What makes the situation depressing is when we put our interpretations on their life.
Lisa Haisha: What's Holding You Back From Changing the World? Lisa Haisha 2010
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Secondly, how depressing is it that this sort of nonsense takes place?
Music 2009
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Rich in depressing ironies, the case in essence pitted Masons arguing, if only opportunistically, that the school is
Sports 2009
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What makes the situation depressing is when we put our interpretations on their life.
Lisa Haisha: What's Holding You Back From Changing the World? Lisa Haisha 2010
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How depressing is that minuscule slice labelled "reading"?
Boing Boing 2009
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What makes the situation depressing is when we put our interpretations on their life.
Lisa Haisha: What's Holding You Back From Changing the World? Lisa Haisha 2010
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