adjective
causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy
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the economic outlook is depressing
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something cheerless about the room
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a moody and uncheerful person
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an uncheerful place
• Syn: ↑cheerless, ↑uncheerful
• Ant: ↑cheerful
• Similar to:
↑blue, ↑dark, ↑dingy, ↑disconsolate, ↑dismal, ↑gloomy, ↑grim, ↑sorry, ↑drab, ↑drear, ↑dreary, ↑somber, ↑sombre, ↑melancholy
• Derivationally related forms: ↑uncheerfulness (for: ↑uncheerful), ↑cheerlessness (for: ↑cheerless)
• Attrubites: ↑cheerfulness, ↑cheer, ↑sunniness, ↑sunshine
Useful english dictionary. 2012.