Synonyms of depressing

adjectiveCausing depression or sadness.

• distressingCausing distress; upsetting; distressful.
• saddeningCausing feelings of sadness.
• unpleasantNot pleasant.
• atrabiliary
• atrabilious
• deplorableTo be felt sorrow for; worthy of compassion; lamentable.
• grievousCausing grief, pain, or sorrow.
• heartbreakingThat causes great grief, anguish or distress.
• heartrending
• lamentableCausing sorrow, distress or regret; deplorable, pitiful or distressing.
• mournfulFit to inspire mourning; tragic.
• regrettableAble to be regretted, especially deserving of regret.
• ruefulCausing, feeling, or expressing regret or sorrow, especially in a wry or humorous way.
• sadCausing sorrow; lamentable.
• sorrowfulProducing sorrow; causing grief.
• tragicCausing great sadness or suffering.
• unhappy
• upsettingCausing upset; distressing, unsettling, hurtful.
• woebegone
• woefulLamentable, deplorable.
• cheerlessDevoid of cheer; gloomy.
• comfortlessOf a thing: offering no comfort; uncomforting.
• bleakUnhappy; cheerless; miserable; emotionally desolate.
• darkConducive to hopelessness; depressing or bleak.
• moroseSullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour.
• desolateDismal or dreary.
• direExpressing bad consequences: dreadful; dismal.
• disconsolateCheerless, dreary.
• dismalCausing despair; gloomy and bleak.
• dolefulFilled with grief, mournful, bringing feelings of sadness.
• dolesomeCharacterised or marked by sorrow and grief; doleful; dismal; gloomy.
• drearDreary.
• drearisomeCharacterised or marked by dreariness.
• drearyDrab; dark, colorless, or cheerless.
• dreich UK, dialectalBleak, cheerless, dismal, dreary, miserable.
• forlornPitifully sad, wretched, miserable; lonely, especially from feeling abandoned, deserted, forsaken.
• gaylessLacking gaiety; gloomy; somber; drab.
• grayDreary, gloomy, cloudy.
• gloomsomeCharacterised or marked by gloom.
• gloomySuffering from gloom; melancholy; dejected.
• grimDismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding.
• joylessWithout joy; unhappy, sad.
• lack-laughterCheerless; sombre; serious.
• lugubriousGloomy, mournful or dismal, especially to an exaggerated degree.
• melancholyAffected with great sadness or depression.
• mirthlessLacking mirth; devoid of joy; sad.
• miserableOf the weather, extremely unpleasant due to being cold, wet, overcast, etc.
• no joke
• saturnineOf a setting: depressing, dull, gloomy.
• somber
• sombreDark; gloomy; shadowy, dimly lit.
• spiritlessLacking energy, drive, motivation or emotion. Enervated.
• sullenGloomy; dismal; foreboding.
• sunlessDreary, cheerless.
• uncheerfulNot cheerful.
• uncheeryNot cheery; gloomy, pessimistic.
• unmerryNot merry, the opposite of merry; sad, gloomy.
• wintryChilling, cheerless.
• lachrymable archaicLamentable.
• solemn obsoleteCheerless, gloomy, sombre.