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Depressing vs Joyless - What's the difference?

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Depressing is a related term of joyless.


As adjectives the difference between depressing and joyless

is that depressing is causing depression or sadness while joyless is without joy; unhappy, sad.

As a verb depressing

is .

depressing

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Causing depression or sadness.
    • The television news was depressing , so rather than start crying I turned it off.

    Synonyms

    * unpleasant

    Verb

    (head)

    • joyless

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • without joy; unhappy, sad
    • Without Joy, my life is joyless!

    Synonyms

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