sadden
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsædən/
rhymes: -ædən
Forms: form: saddens
form: saddening
form: saddened
form: saddened
Etymology: From Middle English saddenen, equivalent to sad + -en.
Senses: examples: text: It saddens me to think that I might have hurt someone.
ref: 1717, Alexander Pope, “Eloisa to Abelard”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], published 1717, →OCLC:
text: The turmoil went on—no rest, no peace. […] It was nearly eleven o'clock now, and he strolled out again. In the little fair created by the costers' barrows the evening only seemed beginning; and the naphtha flares made one's eyes ache, the men's voices grated harshly, and the girls' faces saddened one.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
synonyms: deject
depress
glosses: To make sad or unhappy.
examples: text: He saddens, all the magic light
⁠Dies off at once from bower and hall,
⁠And all the place is dark, and all
The chambers emptied of delight: […]
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto VIII”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
text: Hyacinth perfume tickled her senses, making her feel giddy, but she saddened when she saw how uncared for the garden was.
ref: 1999, Mary Ann Mitchell, Drawn To The Grave:
synonyms: word: get a sad on
word: unhappy
word: aggrieve
word: besorrow
word: condole
word: engrieve
word: erme
word: gloom
word: grieve
word: grieven
word: bleed
word: lament
word: moan
word: mourn
word: regret
word: rue
word: sigh
word: sorrow
word: wayment
word: yearn
glosses: To become sad or unhappy.
examples: text: Curve (E) is seen at a glance to represent green saddened down to its fifth shade, and reduced with white to its fourth tint.
ref: 1903, Society of Dyers and Colourists, Bradford, Eng. (Yorkshire), The Journal, page 129:
synonyms: shade
tinge
glosses: To darken a color during dyeing.
examples: text: Marle's binding and sadning of land being the great Prejudice it doth to Clay-lands.
ref: 1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC:
text: ... the soil below will, instead of being brought up, be trampled and saddened.
ref: 1808, Thomas Batchelor, General View of the Agriculture of the County of Bedford. Drawn Up by Order of the Board of Agriculture, and Internal Improvement. By Thomas Batchelor, Farmer, page 342:
text: […]; the reason why hee left them in the close all the day was, because that hee woulde have the water sattle away, and the growndesomewhat saddened before hee woulde goe to field with them;[…]
ref: 1857, Henry Best, Rural Economy in Yorkshire in 1641: Being the Farming and Account Books of Henry Best, of Elmswell, in the East Riding of the County of York, page 77:
synonyms: deepen
thicken
glosses: To render heavy, hard, or cohesive; to compress or thicken.
Synonyms: word: aggrieve
word: attrist
word: begloom
word: begrieve
word: besorrow
word: grieve
word: bring down
word: contristate
word: dash
word: deject
word: depress
word: desolate
word: dispirit
word: engrieve
word: forset
word: get down
word: grieven
word: moan
word: oppress
word: rue
word: sadden
word: sadden up
word: tristitiate
word: ungladden
word: unhappy
word: upset
Hyponyms: word: daunt
word: despair
word: deter
word: disappoint
word: discourage
word: dissuade
word: dishearten
word: move someone to tears
word: pity
word: reduce someone to tears
Coordinate terms: word: annoy
word: enrage
word: frighten
word: vex
Derived terms: sadden up
Related terms: word: be sad
word: lament
word: lamentable
word: rattristare