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depressing

/dih-pres-ing/US // dɪˈprɛs ɪŋ //UK // (dɪˈprɛsɪŋ) //

压抑的,压抑,令人沮丧的,令人沮丧的是

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : serving to depress; inducing a state of depression: depressing news.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.discouraging, upsetting

Examples

  • The depressing results come not during a time of sharply lower aggregate venture capital results, notably.

  • Still, McConaghy brings verve and a sense of adventure to an otherwise depressing tale of a doomed dream.

  • That’s unlikely to change any time soon, depressing, very likely, the profits for Big Oil for the foreseeable future.

  • I don’t care if Monday’s blueTuesday’s grey and Wednesday tooThursday, I don’t care about youIt’s Friday, I’m in loveThe news of late has ranged from dreary and depressing to downright alarming.

  • In the beginning, I might be sometimes not really wanting to look at news because I’m like, “Oh, this is so depressing.”

  • I remember that after the movie, people were saying how depressing it was, and I started an argument with them.

  • Judy, as depressing as she sounds in this song, just wants your holiday season to be happy.

  • Depressing is really what Cuba has become—repression, bureaucracy, and crippling poverty.

  • They logged every incident and released depressing day-by-day accounts of the carnage.

  • Surely, for anyone with a vested interest in science, reason, and the idea of secular politics, this is deeply depressing news.

  • It was depressing to think of going to bed in such circumstances with the yelling of an Arctic storm for a lullaby.

  • In the French Mustel reed organ the first touch is operated by depressing the keys about a sixteenth part of an inch.

  • Peter Ivanovich Jurgenson was born at Reval in 1836, and his childhood was spent in very poor and depressing circumstances.

  • The severe atmosphere of that sombre apartment, wherein sat the chief of the police of the Republic, was depressing.

  • The seriousness of the situation assumed an even more depressing aspect.