Rain doesn't depress people who like reading.
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Depress
//dɪˈpɹɛs//
Synonyms for "depress" (184 found)
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Closest matches (37)
Verb(17 words)
Strong matches (55)
Related words (92)
Verb(34 words)
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1 entriesSynonyms
3 entriesderived
15 entrieshas context
1 entriesmanner of
3 entriesrelated to
11 entriesTranslations
27 translations across 14 languages.
Bulgarian
3 entries- гнетя verb (to make depressed, sad or bored)
- натискам verb (to press down on)
- потискам verb (to make depressed, sad or bored)
Catalan
1 entries- deprimir verb (to make depressed, sad or bored)
Czech
1 entries- deprimovat verb (to make depressed, sad or bored)
Dutch
1 entries- deprimeren verb (to make depressed, sad or bored)
Finnish
4 entries- ahdistaa verb (to make depressed, sad or bored)
- alentaa verb (to cause a depression or a decrease in parts of the economy)
- laskea verb (to cause a depression or a decrease in parts of the economy)
- masentaa verb (to make depressed, sad or bored)
French
1 entries- appuyer verb (to press down on)
German
1 entries- deprimieren verb (to make depressed, sad or bored)
Hebrew
2 entries- דיכא verb (to make depressed, sad or bored)
- לחץ verb (to press down on)
Ido
3 entries- depresar verb (to press down on)
- depresar verb (to make depressed, sad or bored)
- depresar verb (to cause a depression or a decrease in parts of the economy)
Japanese
2 entries- 凹ます verb (to make depressed, sad or bored)
- 凹ませる verb (to make depressed, sad or bored)
Māori
2 entries- rāwakiwaki verb (to make depressed, sad or bored)
- whakapōuri verb (to make depressed, sad or bored)
Portuguese
2 entries- deprimir verb (to make depressed, sad or bored)
- pressionar verb (to press down on)
Slovak
2 entries- deprimovať verb (to make depressed, sad or bored)
- stlačiť verb (to press down on)
Spanish
1 entries- deprimir verb (to make depressed, sad or bored)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
I don't want to depress you.
Source: tatoeba (7283062)
I didn't want to depress you.
Source: tatoeba (8035394)
The election results depress me.
Source: tatoeba (10187181)
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.