42 synonyms for depressing such as blue, black, and bleak. Depressing is an adjective, and its antonyms are uplifting and encouraging.
Black, bleak, blue, cheerless, comfortless, dark, daunting, dejecting, demoralizing, dingy, discouraging, disenchanting, disheartening, dismal, dispiriting, distressful, distressing, doleful, drab, drear, dreary, funereal, gloomy, grave, grim, heart-rending, heartbreaking, joyless, lachrymose, melancholy, miserable, morbid, painful, sad, saddening, sombre, unfavourable, unhappy, uninviting, upsetting, and wretched.