- 1a/dɪˈpresɪŋ/令人沮喪的
Making you feel very sad, as if there is nothing good happening and nothing good to look forward to.
depressing 是用來形容「事情、地方、消息、天氣」的——形容那個把人的心情往下拉的東西。它比 sad 更悶一點：sad 是單純難過，depressing 還多了「看不到什麼好事會發生」的感覺。形容人自己心情低落時用 depressed（I feel depressed），形容那個讓人低落的東西時用 depressing（The news is depressing）。可以想成 depress 有「往下壓」的畫面，depressing 就像一直把心情往下壓的東西。
示範例句 · Example
It rained for a whole week, and the grey sky was really depressing.
中文翻譯它下雨下了一整個星期，而那片灰色的天空真的令人沮喪。
常見搭配
a depressing thought
一個讓人心情低落的念頭
an idea that makes you feel sad when you think about it
It's a depressing thought that summer is nearly over.
find something depressing
覺得某件事讓人心情低落
to feel sad because of something
Sam finds long, dark winter days depressing.
really / very depressing
真的很／非常令人沮喪
used to make the word stronger in everyday speech
The empty playground looked really depressing in the rain.
depressing news
讓人心情低落的消息
information that makes people feel sad and without hope
The letter brought some depressing news about the school trip.
nothing more depressing than …
沒有比…更讓人心情低落的了
used to say that something makes you feel worse than anything else
There's nothing more depressing than a rainy sports day.
意思相反
core核心畫面
Picture something pressing down on you from above: after you read it, watch it, or hear it, your mood sinks and there seems to be nothing good ahead. The word points at the thing doing the pressing, not at the person being pressed — news, weather, or numbers are depressing; the person they weigh on ends up depressed.
同家族的字
more depressing most depressing
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
depressingadj/dɪˈpɹɛsɪŋ(ɡ)/
- 1
Causing depression or sadness.
- The television news was depressing, so rather than start crying I turned it off.
- 2
Causing a reduction in economic activity.
- The policy may have a depressing effect on some branches of industry.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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