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Grammar : Verb
Spell : sad-n
Phonetic Transcription : ˈsæd n



Definition of saddening

Origin :
  • "to make sorrowful," 1620s, from sad + -en (1). Earlier verb was simply sade, from Old English sadian, which also could be the immediate source of the modern verb. Intransitive meaning "to become sad" is from 1718. Related: Saddened; saddening.
  • verb upset, depress
Example sentences :
  • It is a sad mistake that religion is depressing and saddening to youth.
  • Extract from : « Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women » by George Sumner Weaver
  • It is much used as a "saddening" agent; that is, for darkening other colours.
  • Extract from : « Vegetable Dyes » by Ethel M. Mairet
  • She could think of but one answer to it; this saddening enough.
  • Extract from : « The Free Lances » by Mayne Reid
  • All around had assumed a saddening aspect in the vacillating moonbeams.
  • Extract from : « The Red Track » by Gustave Aimard
  • “The riddle of the world” had its saddening aspects for him, as it has for all earnest souls.
  • Extract from : « Sermons » by Clement Bailhache
  • It must be saddening to a great man to reflect that the schoolboys have no respect for him.
  • Extract from : « South London » by Sir Walter Besant
  • A saddening thought, but true, as many a good woman has found to her cost.
  • Extract from : « The Sportswoman's Library, v. 2 » by Various
  • The effect of the whole is exceedingly beautiful, chaste, and saddening.
  • Extract from : « Lancashire Sketches » by Edwin Waugh
  • Its associations to many were pleasant, to others, saddening.
  • Extract from : « Company G » by A. R. (Albert Rowe) Barlow
  • He sighed, as if the reminiscence of past times was pleasing but saddening.
  • Extract from : « The Chaplain of the Fleet » by Walter Besant and James Rice

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