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| Main Entry: | depressing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | discouraging, upsetting |
| Synonyms: | black, bleak, dismal, distressing, dreary, funereal, gloomy, heartbreaking, hopeless, joyless, melancholy, mournful, oppressive, sad, somber, daunting, dejecting, disheartening, dispiriting, melancholic, saddening |
| Antonyms: | cheering, encouraging, happy |
| Main Entry: | depress |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | deject, make despondent; exhaust |
| Synonyms: | abase, afflict, ail, bear down, beat, bother, bug*, chill*, cow*, damp, dampen, darken, daunt, debase, debilitate, degrade, desolate, devitalize, discourage, dishearten, dismay, distress, disturb, drag*, drain, dull, enervate, faze, lower, mock, mortify, oppress, perturb, press, put down*, reduce, run down*, sadden, sap*, scorn, slow, torment, trouble, try, upset, weaken, weary, weigh down*, beat down*, bum out, cast down, dispirit, keep under, reduce to tears, throw cold water on, turn one off |
| Antonyms: | cheer, comfort, encourage, excite, lift, stimulate, make happy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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, dip, droop, flatten, let down, level, lower, settle, sink, squash, demit, press down, smoosh |
| Antonyms: | raise, uplift, push up |
| 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, gross*, gruesome, grungy*, harrowing, hideous, horrible, nasty, offensive, raunchy, repulsive, shocking, stinking, synthetic, tough, ugly, unpleasant, unsightly, grody, horrendous, horrific, horrifying |
| Antonyms: | beautiful, good, pleasing, ok |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | discouraging |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | upsetting |
| Synonyms: | black, bleak, depressing, deterring, disadvantageous, disappointing, dismal, dreary, gloomy, inopportune, oppressive, unfavorable, unpropitious, dampening, daunting, depressive, disheartening, dismaying, dispiriting, dissuading, hindering, off-putting, repressing |
| Antonyms: | auspicious, encouraging, favorable, inspiring, heartening, inspiriting |
| Main Entry: | dismal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bleak, dreary, gloomy |
| Synonyms: | black, boring, cheerless, cloudy, dark, depressed, depressing, desolate, despondent, dim, dingy, disagreeable, discouraging, doleful, dolorous, dull, forlorn, frowning, funereal, ghastly, gruesome, hopeless, horrible, inauspicious, joyless, lonesome, lowering, lugubrious, melancholy, miserable, monotonous, morbid, murky, oppressive, overcast, sad, shadowy, somber, sorrowful, tedious, tenebrous, troublesome, unfortunate, unhappy, afflictive, disheartening, dispiriting, horrid, in the pits |
| Antonyms: | bright, cheerful, glad, happy, hopeful, light, pleasant |
| Main Entry: | dreary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | gloomy, lifeless |
| Synonyms: | black, blah, bleak, boring, cheerless, colorless, damp, depressing, dingy, dismal, doleful, downcast, drab, dull, forlorn, funereal, glum, humdrum, joyless, lonely, lonesome, melancholy, monotonous, mournful, oppressive, pedestrian, raw, routine, sad, somber, sorrowful, tedious, uneventful, uninteresting, wearisome, windy, wintry, wretched, comfortless, depressive, dispiriting |
| Antonyms: | bright, clear, happy, light, pleasant |
| Main Entry: | joyless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unhappy |
| Synonyms: | black, bleak, blue, cheerless, dejected, depressant, depressed, depressing, dismal, dispirited, doleful, down in the mouth*, downcast, dreary, droopy, gloomy, heavy*, low, melancholy, miserable, mournful, sad, somber, dispiriting, dragged, have the blahs, melancholic, mopey, saddening |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, delighted, happy, joyful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | uninteresting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | boring, uneventful |
| Synonyms: | arid, banal, common, commonplace, depressing, dismal, drab, dreary, dry, dull, dusty*, flat, humdrum, insipid, irksome, jejune, monotonous, nothing*, pedestrian, prosaic, soporific, stale, stupid, tedious, tired, tiresome, trite, unexciting, wearisome, big yawn, bromidic, fatiguing, ho hum, nowhere, prosy, unenjoyable, unentertaining, uninspiring |
| Antonyms: | eventful, exciting, interesting |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | disappointing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unsatisfactory |
| Synonyms: | bitter, depressing, disagreeable, discouraging, distasteful, failing, inadequate, ineffective, inferior, insufficient, lame, mediocre, unhappy, uninteresting, unpleasant, disconcerting, disheartening, displeasing, falling short, frustrating, unfulfilling, unsatisfying |
| Antonyms: | encouraging, pleasing, satisfactory |
| Main Entry: | disturbing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disquieting |
| Synonyms: | alarming, annoying, bothersome, burdensome, consequential, creepy, depressing, difficult, disagreeable, discouraging, distressing, embarrassing, foreboding, frightening, gloomy, hard, inconvenient, irksome, irritating, laborious, ominous, onerous, painful, perplexing, pessimistic, prophetic, provoking, severe, sinister, startling, threatening, tiresome, toilsome, troublesome, trying, uncertain, unpleasant, wearisome, worrisome, worrying, aggravating, agitating, discomforting, discommoding, discomposing, disconcerting, dismaying, harassing, impeding, perturbing, troubling, unsettling, upsetting, vexing |
| Main Entry: | oppressive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | overwhelming, repressive |
| Synonyms: | backbreaking*, bleak, brutal, burdensome, confining, cruel, demanding, depressing, despotic, dictatorial, discouraging, dismal, exacting, exigent, gloomy, grievous, grinding, harsh, headache*, heavy, heavy-handed*, hefty, inhuman, mean, onerous, overbearing, severe, somber, taxing, tough, troublesome, tyrannical, unjust, weighty, depressive, disheartening, dispiriting, ironhanded*, rough going, superincumbent |
| Antonyms: | calm, gentle, relieving |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | black |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hopeless |
| Synonyms: | atrocious, bleak, depressing, dismal, distressing, doleful, dreary, foreboding, funereal, gloomy, horrible, lugubrious, mournful, ominous, oppressive, sad, sinister, threatening, depressive, dispiriting, sombre |
| Antonyms: | hopeful, optimistic |
| Main Entry: | chill |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unfriendly, aloof |
| Synonyms: | cool, depressing, discouraging, dismal, distant, emotionless, formal, frigid, glacial, hateful, hostile, icy, indifferent, reserved, solitary, standoffish, stony, unemotional, unhappy, unresponsive, wintry, withdrawn, dispiriting, uncompanionable, ungenial, unwelcoming |
| Antonyms: | friendly, responsive, sympathetic, warm |
| Main Entry: | dim |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unfavorable with regard to opinion |
| Synonyms: | depressing, discouraging, gloomy, skeptical, somber, suspicious, disapproving, unpromising |
| Antonyms: | favorable, good |
| Main Entry: | dire |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | terrible, ominous |
| Synonyms: | alarming, appalling, awful, black, calamitous, cruel, deplorable, depressing, disastrous, dismal, distressing, dreadful, fearful, fierce, frightful, gloomy, grievous, grim, heartbreaking, horrible, lamentable, portentous, redoubtable, regrettable, ruinous, shocking, terrific, ugly, unfortunate, woeful, afflictive, cataclysmic, catastrophic, horrid, oppressing, scowling |
| Antonyms: | fortunate, good, lucky, nice |
| Main Entry: | sad |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unfortunate, distressing |
| Synonyms: | bad, calamitous, dark, deplorable, depressing, disastrous, discouraging, dismal, dreary, funereal, grave, grievous, hapless, joyless, lachrymose, lamentable, lugubrious, miserable, moving, oppressive, pathetic, pitiful, poignant, regrettable, serious, shabby, sorry, tearful, tragic, unhappy, unsatisfactory, wretched, dejecting, discomposing, disheartening, dispiriting, heart-rending, melancholic, pitiable, saddening, tear-jerking, upsetting |
| Antonyms: | fortunate, great, happy, lucky |
| Main Entry: | stark |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bare, unadorned |
| Synonyms: | au naturel, austere, bald, barren, bleak, chaste, clear, cold, depressing, desolate, dreary, empty, forsaken, grim, harsh, naked, nude, plain, raw, severe, solitary, stripped, uncovered, vacant, vacuous, void, unclad, unclothed, undraped |
| Antonyms: | clothed, covered |
| Main Entry: | burden |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | encumber, strain |
| Synonyms: | afflict, bother, crush, depress, dish out*, encumber, hamper, handicap, hinder, impede, load, obligate, oppress, overcharge, overload, overwhelm, pile, press, snow*, strain, tax, trouble, try, vex, weigh down, worry, bear down on, cumber, dish it out, dump on, give it to, lade, make heavy, saddle with, snow under, stick it to |
| Antonyms: | aid, help, relieve |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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