Associations to the word «Depressing»

Wiktionary

DEPRESSING, adjective. Causing depression or sadness.
DEPRESSING, verb. Present participle of depress

Dictionary definition

DEPRESSING, adjective. 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".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats