depressing

/dɪˈprɛsɪŋ/

意味: 憂うつな

例文: Fluffin’s empty glitter jar felt depressing.
　　  フラッフィンの空っぽのラメ瓶が憂うつ。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: depressing news(憂鬱なニュース), depressing thought(憂鬱な考え), depressing atmosphere(憂鬱な雰囲気)

定義: 気持ちを暗くさせる、悲しくさせる、元気をなくさせるようなことを指します。何かが「depressing」であると、それは人を落ち込ませたり、悲しい気持ちにさせたりすることを意味します。

depressingは約100,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

口語性、形式性、抽象度、感情度

水平グラフ: 会話での使われやすさ、フォーマル度、抽象度（具体・概念）、感情度を示します。数値が高いほど、その特徴が強いことを表します。

感情分析

レーダーチャート: 怒り、期待、嫌悪、恐れ、喜び、悲しみ、驚き、信頼、ポジティブ、ネガティブの強さを示します。

　年代別単語頻度グラフ

このグラフは、1900年からの単語出現頻度の推移を示しています。値は ×10⁻⁸ スケールで表示されています。

　

Definitions(定義)

Verb: lower someone’s spirits; make downhearted
Verb: lower (prices or markets)
Verb: cause to drop or sink
Verb: press down
Verb: lessen the activity or force of
Adjective: causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Verb, Adjective

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文：

The movie was so depressing I couldn’t finish it.(その映画はあまりに depressing で最後まで見られなかった。)
That news report was truly depressing to watch.(あのニュース報道は本当に depressing だった。)
His depressing attitude affected the whole team.(彼の depressing な態度がチーム全体に影響した。)

 

Word Netから抽出した例文：

Verb: These news depressed her
Verb: The bad state of her child’s health demoralizes her
Verb: The glut of oil depressed gas prices
Verb: The lack of rain had depressed the water level in the reservoir
Verb: Depress the space key
Verb: The rising inflation depressed the economy
Adjective: the economic outlook is depressing
Adjective: something cheerless about the room
Adjective: a moody and uncheerful person
Adjective: an uncheerful place

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): cast down, cheerless, deject, demoralise, demoralize, depress, depressing, dismay, dispirit, get down, lower, press down, uncheerful

Antonyms(反意語): cheerful, elate

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): change, discourage, lower, move, weaken

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): accelerate, acerbate, acetylate, achromatize, activate, adjust, advance, affect, age, agitate, alchemize, alcoholize, alkalinize, allegorize, alter, americanize, angulate, animize, antiquate, antique, archaize, arterialize, ash, assimilate, automatize, awaken, barb, barbarize, beat, bestialize, better, blind, blister, blow, blunt, blur, boil, brandish, break, break down, brighten, bring, brutalize, bubble, calcify, camp, capture, cause to sleep, center, centralize, change hands, change intensity, change taste, charge, chase away, chasten, check, circularize, circulate, civilize, clarify, classicize, clean, clear, clot, cloud, coarsen, cohere, color, commercialize, communize, commute, complicate, condense, confuse, constitutionalize, contaminate, conventionalize, convert, cook, cool, corrupt, counterchange, crack, cripple, cry, customize, damage, dampen, dandle, darken, de-emphasize, de-energize, deaden, deaminate, decarboxylate, decelerate, decentralize, decimalize, decorate, decrease, decrepitate, deflate, deform, dehydrogenate, demagnetize, demist, democratize, demonize, demulsify, demythologize, denationalize, denaturalize, denature, deodorize, depersonalize, depolarize, depress, desensitize, destabilize, detransitivize, devalue, develop, devilize, devitalize, digitize, dilute, dinge, dip, dirty, disable, disarrange, discolor, disharmonize, dishearten, disintegrate, dislocate, disorder, displace, disqualify, dissimilate, dissolve, diversify, dizzy, domesticate, dope, drag, draw, drive, drop, dry, dull, dynamize, ease up, edit, emasculate, embrittle, empty, emulsify, enable, end, enervate, enfeeble, engage, equal, eroticize, estrange, etherealize, etiolate, europeanize, evaporate, even, excite, expel, extend, exteriorize, fatten, feminize, fertilize, fill, fix, flatten, flick, flocculate, fluctuate, freeze, frenchify, full, funnel, gelatinize, glamorize, glide, glorify, habituate, harmonize, harshen, heat, herd, hit, hue, humanize, humble, hustle, hydrogenate, immaterialize, immortalize, inactivate, incandesce, incline, increase, indispose, industrialize, inflate, inform, inseminate, insulate, intensify, internationalize, intimidate, introvert, invalidate, invert, iodinate, ionate, islamize, isomerize, jar, laicize, lateralize, launch, legitimate, lend, liberalize, lifehack, lift, liquefy, loosen, louden, lower, lubricate, magnetize, make, mark, masculinize, mechanize, militarize, mince, mix, mobilize, morph, muddy, mythologize, nationalize, naturalize, nazify, neutralize, nick, normalize, obfuscate, obscure, occidentalize, officialize, opacify, opalize, opsonize, orientalize, ossify, outmode, overturn, oxidize, oxygenize, paganize, pall, parallel, patent, personalize, piggyback, plasticize, play, poison, polarize, politicize, port, pour, press down, professionalize, proof, propel, prostrate, pull, pulse, pump, purify, push, put, race, radicalize, raise, rake, rarefy, rationalize, recombine, recommend, reconstruct, reef, refine, reflate, reform, refresh, relax, relocate, remodel, restore, revolutionize, right, ripen, rock, roll, romanticize, round off, rout out, run, rusticate, saltate, sanitize, saponify, saturate, sauce, scan, schematize, scramble, send, sensitize, sentimentalize, separate, set, sexualize, shade, shake, shallow, shape, sharpen, shift, shorten, simplify, singsong, sink, slenderize, slide, sling, slip, smut, sober, socialize, soften, solemnize, solvate, spice, spike, spill, sputter, stabilize, stain, station, steepen, stiffen, still, stir, straighten, strengthen, string, substitute, suburbanize, supercharge, supple, suspend, sweeten, swing, switch, symmetrize, synchronize, take back, tame, temper, tender, tense, territorialize, thicken, think, throw cold water on, tighten, tone down, touch, transaminate, transfer, transfigure, transform, transitivize, translate, transmit, transmute, transport, transpose, tug, turn, turn back, uglify, unbrace, unclutter, uniformize, unite, unsanctify, unscramble, unseat, unsex, untie, untune, unwind, uproot, upstage, urbanize, validate, variegate, vascularize, ventilate, verbify, vesiculate, visualize, vitalize, vitrify, vivify, volatilize, vulgarise, warm, wash, wash out, weaken, weaponize, wedge, wet, whistle, widen, wind, woosh, work, worsen

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): chill

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: cheerlessness, dejection, demoralisation, demoralization, depressant, depression, depressor, dismay, lower, lowering, uncheerfulness

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: economics, psychology

Usage Category: common

Usage Context: descriptive, emotional

Grammatical Notes:
transitive verb

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞): de

Suffixes(接尾辞): ing

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Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) No

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) Yes

Emotion Categories: disgust, negative, sadness