Crossword clues for depressing
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Depress \De*press"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Depressed; p. pr. & vb. n. Depressing.] [L. depressus, p. p. of deprimere; de- + premere to press. See Press.]
To press down; to cause to sink; to let fall; to lower; as, to depress the muzzle of a gun; to depress the eyes. ``With lips depressed.''
--Tennyson.To bring down or humble; to abase, as pride.
To cast a gloom upon; to sadden; as, his spirits were depressed.
To lessen the activity of; to make dull; embarrass, as trade, commerce, etc.
To lessen in price; to cause to decline in value; to cheapen; to depreciate.
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(Math.) To reduce (an equation) in a lower degree.
To depress the pole (Naut.), to cause the sidereal pole to appear lower or nearer the horizon, as by sailing toward the equator.
Syn: To sink; lower; abase; cast down; deject; humble; degrade; dispirit; discourage.
Wiktionary
Causing depression or sadness. v
(present participle of depress English)
WordNet
adj. 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" [syn: blue, dark, disconsolate, dismal, dispiriting, gloomy, grim]
causing or suggestive of sorrow or gloom; "a gloomy outlook"; "gloomy news" [syn: depressive, gloomy, saddening]
Usage examples of "depressing".
The actuator is engaged by depressing the button built into the reverse of the pistol grip.
Smokies shelters but are airier, cleaner, better designed, and without those horrible, depressing chain-link fences across their fronts.
Where Little Arcady had looked for the best Brussels carpets, there came only dull-colored rugs of a most aged and depressing lack of gayety.
In strange contrast to her depressing appearance, there sat beside her an over-dressed, much behatted, peroxided young woman, who bore the stamp of the theatrical profession all over her pretty, painted face.
It was depressing to hear, and Bremen soon gave up on pursuing his inquiries.
That was enough, Cathartes thought, to make them the most depressing section of the whole.
Slice-of-life commercials usually deal with the more depressing areas of lifeodors, sores, old age, ugliness, pain.
We do not use those narcotics and compounds of antipyrine and other similar agents which are very depressing in their effects, and, like morphine and other preparations of opium, give only temporary relief, and interfere with the action of the heart, but we use treatment that builds up the system, removes the cause of the difficulty and restores the nervous system and all the organs of the body to a normal and healthful condition.
Pembroke, who was not an employee, wondered if Tom Grenville intended to make points with Van Dorn, a senior partner in the firm, and wear the depressing thing the entire weekend.
He had been born beneath the wide skies of Helicon, and had at first found these covered environs a little daunting, even depressing, but his long decades on Trantor had gradually inured him.
Besides, except for the heat, flies, septic sores, the khamseen, bad water, dysentery, vaccination, inoculations many and various, digging holes, and a depressing sameness about the scenery, we had, according to some, little to grumble at.
She took up a chamber pot and knelt before the man, depressing his member into the jar, which soon rattled with released urine.
Her furniture is a light maple veneer, in depressing contrast to the beautiful antiques and artistic pieces, including Oriental rugs, fine stemware and china, that she spent most of her career collecting.
It was, in a large measure, in the light of after years that Agatha judged this period, but even at the time she felt it to be depressing, uncomfortable, unnatural.
Even his own position as a white man exalted conspicuously above a horde of black natives did not save Comus from the depressing sense of nothingness which his first experience of fever had thrown over him.