Adjective
- 1. depressing (vs. cheerful), cheerless, uncheerful, blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary, somber, sombre, melancholy, joyless, unhappy
- usage: 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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