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depressing

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Main Entry: depress
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: deject, make despondent; exhaust

Synonyms:

abase, afflict, ail, bear down, beat, beat down, bother, bug*, bum out, cast down, chill*, cow*, damp, dampen, darken, daunt, debase, debilitate, degrade, desolate, devitalize, discourage, dishearten, dismay, dispirit, distress, disturb, drag*, drain, dull, enervate, faze, keep under, lower, mock, mortify, oppress, perturb, press, put down*, reduce, reduce to tears, run down, sadden, sap*, scorn, slow, throw cold water on, torment, trouble, try, turn one off, upset, weaken, weary, weigh down

Antonyms:

cheer, comfort, encourage, excite, lift, make happy, stimulate
Main Entry: depress
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: devalue

Synonyms:

cheapen, debase, depreciate, diminish, downgrade, impair, lessen, lower, reduce

Antonyms:

increase, raise
Main Entry: depress
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: push down

Synonyms:

couch, demit, dip, droop, flatten, let down, level, lower, press down, settle, sink, smoosh, squash

Antonyms:

push up, raise, uplift
Main Entry: depressing
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: discouraging, upsetting

Synonyms:

black, bleak, daunting, dejecting, disheartening, dismal, dispiriting, distressing, dreary, funereal, gloomy, heartbreaking, hopeless, joyless, melancholic, melancholy, mournful, oppressive, sad, saddening, somber

Antonyms:

cheering, encouraging, happy
Main Entry: awful
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: very bad; terrible

Synonyms:

abominable, alarming, appalling, atrocious, deplorable, depressing, dire, disgusting, distressing, dreadful, fearful, frightful, ghastly, grody, gross*, gruesome, grungy, harrowing, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrific, horrifying, nasty, offensive, raunchy, repulsive, shocking, stinking, synthetic, tough, ugly, unpleasant, unsightly

Antonyms:

beautiful, good, ok, pleasing
Main Entry: black
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: hopeless

Synonyms:

atrocious, bleak, depressing, depressive, dismal, dispiriting, distressing, doleful, dreary, foreboding, funereal, gloomy, horrible, lugubrious, mournful, ominous, oppressive, sad, sinister, sombre, threatening

Antonyms:

hopeful, optimistic
Main Entry: burden
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: encumber, strain

Synonyms:

afflict, bear down on, bother, crush, cumber, depress, dish it out, dish out, dump on, encumber, give it to, hamper, handicap, hinder, impede, lade, load, make heavy, obligate, oppress, overcharge, overload, overwhelm, pile, press, saddle with, snow under, snow*, stick it to, strain, tax, trouble, try, vex, weigh down, worry

Antonyms:

aid, help, relieve
Main Entry: chill
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: unfriendly, aloof

Synonyms:

cool, depressing, discouraging, dismal, dispiriting, distant, emotionless, formal, frigid, glacial, hateful, hostile, icy, indifferent, reserved, solitary, standoffish, stony, uncompanionable, unemotional, ungenial, unhappy, unresponsive, unwelcoming, wintry, withdrawn

Antonyms:

friendly, responsive, sympathetic, warm
Main Entry: chill
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: discourage

Synonyms:

cloud, dampen, dash, deject, demoralize, depress, dishearten, dismay, disparage, dispirit

Antonyms:

encourage, hearten, incite, inspirit
Main Entry: dampen
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: spoil spirits

Synonyms:

allay, check, chill, cloud, cool, curb, dash, deaden, deject, depress, diminish, discourage, dismay, dispirit, dull, humble, inhibit, moderate, muffle, mute, restrain, stifle

Antonyms:

brighten, encourage, hearten, inspirit, uplift
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