Lexic.us

Definition of Depressing

1. Adjective. Causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy. "An uncheerful place"

Definition of Depressing

1. Adjective. Causing depression or sadness. ¹

2. Verb. (present participle of depress) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Depressing

1. depress [v] - See also: depress

Lexicographical Neighbors of Depressing

Literary usage of Depressing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Life of Charles Dickens by John Forster (1873)
"... without a doubt, got the Periodical ' notion ; and that I am writing under the depressing and ' discomforting influence of paying off the tribe of bills ..."

2. Outlines of Psychology by Wilhelm Max Wundt, Charles Hubbard Judd (1897)
"We are never to forget here that pleasurable and unpleasurable, exciting and depressing, are not names of single affective qualities , but of directions, ..."

3. Art Thoughts: The Experiences and Observations of an American Amateur in Europe by James Jackson Jarves (1869)
"... Depressing The depressing effect of books on art is felt chiefly 'boo'ia. in its highest aspects. In the inferior functions printing favors a spread of ..."

4. A Treatise on the Practice of Medicine by George Bacon Wood (1866)
"... until its quieting or depressing effects are experienced. The most convenient mode of exhibition is that of emulsion with a little camphor, ..."

5. The Lancet (1842)
"The following examples will show how an income-tax must act in depressing trade and in discouraging the productive employment of capital, ..."

6. The Institutes of Medicine by Martyn Paine (1862)
"Certain parts, under equal degrees of common inflammation, maintain the general exciting influence upon the organs of circulation against the depressing ..."

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