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Depressing vs Repressing - What's the difference?

depressing | repressing |

As verbs the difference between depressing and repressing

is that depressing is present participle of lang=en while repressing is present participle of lang=en.

As an adjective depressing

is causing depression or sadness.

As a noun repressing is

a second or subsequent pressing.

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)

    • repressing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A second or subsequent pressing.
    • repressings of a vinyl record