Used in a Sentence

depressing

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for depressing.

Editorial note

All I hear from the US is complaints about H-1B immigration depressing wages.

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Parts of speech1

Quick take

Causing depression or sadness.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of depressing gathered in one view.

adjective

Causing depression or sadness.

adjective

Causing a reduction in economic activity.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for depressing.

Example sentences

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All I hear from the US is complaints about H-1B immigration depressing wages.

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My point here though is that office parks are a depressing and unsatisfying experience for any company or employee.

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Also, the proportion of people who think water is a one-time use thing is depressing.

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Too make it even more depressing there is not even a way to prepare for this event and change that outcome.

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Treated like a throw away item without any future perspective must be horribly depressing.

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I find it really depressing that the only business model that seems to work online is ads.

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I actually find it slightly depressing how many people here don't find it offensive, and are comfortable with it.

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It was so depressing, all these boring consumer drones in the making.

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And then encountering Heisenberg's uncertainty principle was just depressing and I took to computer science.

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It's really depressing, how skim these posts on UI are.

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There's a famous, and depressing, quote about newspapers by Micheal Crichton that fits here: Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows.

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We rural farmers have found the ignorance of city folk about how their food and electricity and water are produced depressing and hilarious in this ambivalent way for decades.

Quote examples

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All there seemed to be to do was drink shitty beer at depressing "Irish" pubs.

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'I kind of felt like Bruce Wayne.'" The Batman comic where he rounds up the homeless and imprisons them sounds unbelievably depressing.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use depressing in a sentence?

All I hear from the US is complaints about H-1B immigration depressing wages.

What does depressing mean?

Causing depression or sadness.

What part of speech is depressing?

depressing is commonly used as adjective.