{
    "term": "depressing",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "academic": true,
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "making you feel very sad and without enthusiasm",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a depressing sight/thought/experience"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Looking for a job these days can be very depressing."
                },
                {
                    "text": "These findings make very depressing reading."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I find politics profoundly depressing: none of the parties appeals to me."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We found it a deeply depressing experience."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The problem seems to recur with depressing regularity."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Feelings"],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "become", "get"],
                "adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈpresɪŋ/",
                "audio": "de/depressing/depressing__gb_3.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈpresɪŋ/",
                "audio": "de/depressing/depressing__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": null
}