Usually means: Evoking sadness, despair, and hopelessness.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word depressing:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. depressing: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. depressing: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. depressing: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. depressing: Collins English Dictionary
  5. depressing: Vocabulary.com
  6. Depressing, depressing: Wordnik
  7. depressing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. depressing: Wiktionary
  9. depressing: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Depressing, depressing: Dictionary.com
  11. depressing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. Depressing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. depressing: Rhymezone
  14. Depressing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. depressing: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. depressing: Free Dictionary
  17. depressing: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. depressing: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. depressing: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. depressing: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. depressing: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See depress as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Causing depression or sadness.
adjective:  Causing a reduction in economic activity.

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