Depressing
[dɪ'presɪŋ] or [dɪ'prɛsɪŋ]
Definition
(adj.) causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy; 'the economic outlook is depressing'; 'something cheerless about the room'; 'a moody and uncheerful person'; 'an uncheerful place' .
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Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Depress
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Examples
- The operator next sends the letter M by depressing the appropriate key. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- On the banks of the river Saone it was wet, depressing, solitary; and the night deepened fast. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The pointer uses both hands in elevating and depressing the gun. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Serpent, Sir,' repeated Mr. Pott, raising his voice, and then suddenly depressing it: 'I said, serpent, sir--make the most of it. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- I do not know what the effect was on the other side, but assume it must have been correspondingly depressing. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- At the South, particularly in Richmond, the effect was correspondingly depressing. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- All this was very depressing. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- A series of shoes are pivoted to the frame, extend beneath the seed box, and are provided with springs for depressing or raising them. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- A silence broods over the scene that is depressing to the spirits. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Well, as my views changed my course became very depressing. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Upon depressing any one of these keys the motion of the cylinder is arrested when one of its pins is caught and held by the depressed key. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- A depressing and difficult passage has prefaced every new page I have turned in life. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- But she is boring all the men horribly, and if she takes to distributing tracts, as I hear she does, it will be too depressing. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- The male stepped forward, fixing his eyes on me: I drew near, still holding out my lure, while he, depressing his head, rushed at me with his horns. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- It was a depressing sight, marking such titanic but futile struggles with nature. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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