Sadden

Definitions: Sadden

Sadden

Verb

1. Make unhappy; 'The news of her death saddened me'.

2. Come to feel sad.

Date "sadden" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1120. (references)

Antonym: gladden (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Dejection	Depress; discourage, dishearten; dispirit; damp, dull, deject, lower, sink, dash, knock down, unman, prostrate, break one's heart; frown upon; cast a gloom, cast a shade on; sadden; damp one's hopes, dash one's hopes, wither one's hopes; weigh on the mind, lie heavy on the mind, prey on the mind, weigh on the spirits, lie heavy on the spirits, prey on the spirits; damp the spirits, depress the spirits.
Pain	Sadden; make unhappy; plunge into sorrow, grieve, fash, afflict, distress; cut up, cut to the heart.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Sadden

English words defined with "sadden": Saddened. (references)

Etymologies containing "sadden": Contristate. (references)

"Sadden" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sadden" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	100%	7	133,076

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "sadden"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		vreros (afflict, grieve), trishtoj (cast down), pikëlloj (afflict, damp, depress, distress), dëshpëroj (cast down, despair, discourage, dishearten, dispirit, embitter, get down), brengos (chill, damp, deject, depress, grieve). (various references)

Arabic		‏حزن (afflict, aggrieve, anger, bale, be sorrowful, be sorry, cloud, crack, darken, depress, depression, distress, doldrums, gloom, grief, grieve, gripe, heartache, melancholy, pain, sadness, sadness pain, sorrow), ‏بعث على الحزن. (various references)

Bulgarian		опечалявам се, опечалявам (afflict, distress, grieve, vex), натъжавам (dash, grow sad). (various references)

Chinese		难过 (Saddened, saddening). (various references)

Czech		zkormoutit, zarmoutit (distress, upset), rozesmutnit. (various references)

Farsi		غمگین کردن (Aggrieve, Grieve, Sorrow), افسرده شدن (Dampen, Gloom, Languish). (various references)

French		rendre triste (make smb. sad), désoler, attrister, affliger. (various references)

German		betrüben (afflict, annoy, cause pain, cause pain to, distress, give pain to, grieve, gripe, vex, worry). (various references)

Greek		μελαγχολώ (be gloomy, brood, depress, fret, mope, sulk), λυπώ (afflict, hurt, pain). (various references)

Hebrew		לע�'ם (cause sorrow, distress), ל�"ו�'ות (afflict, grieve, pain), ל�"עציב (grieve), ל�"א�"יב (grieve, make sorrowful), ל�"�"איב (cause sorrow, distress, make sad), ל�"�"�"יב (cause sorrow, grieve), לצער (cause grief, distress, grieve). (various references)

Hungarian		elszomorít (to depress, to grieve, to hip, to sadden), bánatossá tesz. (various references)

Indonesian		menyedihkan (forlorn, grievous, pitiable, tragic). (various references)

Italian		rattristare (be sad, become sad, depress, dull). (various references)

Korean		슬�"�게 하십시�". (various references)

Manx		cur trimshey er (distress), cheet dy ve trimshey. (various references)

Pig Latin		addensay.(various references)

Portuguese		entristecer (cloud, darkle, discommode, gloom, overcast). (various references)

Romanian		se întrista (darken, darkle, grieve, grow sad, sorrow), mâhni (afflict, aggrieve, deject, desolate, distress, grieve, pain, pique), deprima (bring low, cast down, deject, depress, discourage), amãrî (agrieve, embitter, envenom, sour), întuneca (bedim, cloud, darken, dim, gloom, muddy, obfuscate, obscure, overcloud, overshadow, tarnish), întrista (afflict, chagrin, deject, dishearten, grieve, mope, pain, shade). (various references)

Russian		опечалиться, опечалить, печалить. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		rastužiti (afflict, dishearten), ražalostiti. (various references)

Spanish		entristecer (afflict, cause pain, cause pain to, distress, give pain to, grieve, shade). (various references)

Swedish		göra ledsen, bedröva (afflict, cause pain, cause pain to, distress, give pain to, grieve). (various references)

Thai		เสียใจ (rueful), ทำให้เสียใจ (hurt). (various references)

Turkish		hüzünlendirmek, üzmek (affect, afflict, aggrieve, agitate, break up, cast down, chagrin, deject, desolate, disgruntle, distress, fret, grieve, grind, grind down, hatchel, hit, lacerate, lead smb. a dance, mope, pain, pother, put out, shake, spite, trouble, vex, worry), üzülmek (be troubled about, bother, bother about, deplore, feel bad about, feel badly about, fret, grieve, have the hump, languish, regret, rue, sorrow, trouble, worry, worry oneself). (various references)

Ukranian		сумувати (rue), робити тьмянішим, засмучувати (afflict, aggravate, aggrieve, chagrin, chill, discompose, dishearten, dispirit, grieve, oppress, rue, unsettle, upset), блякнути. (various references)

Welsh		trista/u (grieve), pruddhau (depress). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	tristifico. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "sadden": saddened, saddening, saddens. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Sadden" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: adden, Cadden, daddin, gadden, Saadeddine, Saadoun, Saadun, Sadan, saded, sadel, sadin, Saidani, Sawdde, Sawdon, sden, Seaden, Sedden, seden, senden, Shalden, sident, soddem, spaden, staden, suddel, taden. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "sadden" (pronounced sa"dun)
4	-a" d u n	gladden, madden.
3	-d u n	abandon, bedridden, beholden, broaden, burden, cordon, deaden, downtrodden, embolden, forbidden, garden, golden, harden, hidden, Holden, Jordan, laden, leaden, Linden, Loden, Louden, maiden, menhaden, Myrmidon, olden, overburden, overridden, pardon, prekindergarten, prostaglandin, redden, ridden, sodden, Soldan, sudden, tendon, unburden, warden, widen, wooden.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: dedans, desand, sanded.
	Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-n-s"
	-1 letter: deads, deans, saned, sedan.
	-2 letters: adds, ands, anes, dads, dead, dean, dens, ends, sade, sand, sane, send, sned.
	-3 letters: add, ads, and, ane, dad, den, eds, end, ens, nae, sad, sae, sea, sen.
	-4 letters: ad, ae, an, as, de, ed, en, es, na, ne.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-d-e-n-s"
	+1 letter: addends, danders, dandies, dandles, deadens, demands, desands, maddens, saddens.
	+2 letters: adenoids, ascended, bedstand, damndest, dandiest, dandlers, darndest, daunders, deadness, deadpans, deodands, desanded, gladdens, islanded, landside, saddened, sandaled, sideband, stranded, unsaddle, unshaded.
	+3 letters: absconded, adherends, astounded, bedstands, bemaddens, candidest, damndests, damnedest, dandifies, danegelds, daneweeds, darndests, darnedest, datedness, dazedness, deadeners, deadlines, decadents, deckhands, demanders, denudates, desanding, descanted, destained, diagnosed, disbanded, discanted, disdained, distained, distanced, dunelands, handhelds, handseled, headbands, headlands, headstand, headwinds, hendiadys, husbanded, jadedness, landsides, landslide, mansarded, redemands, riddances, saddening, sandalled, scandaled, serenaded, sidebands, slandered, tidelands, transuded, unadvised, unsaddled, unsaddles.
	+4 letters: addressing, admonished, andradites, andromedas, anhydrides, blandished, brandished, candidates, candidness, damascened, damnedests, dandelions, deadenings, deadliness, deadnesses, decadences, decapodans, defendants, demandants, demantoids, deodorants, dependants, descendant, designated, didynamies, disengaged, dismantled, displanted, distrained, dodecagons, downgrades, downscaled, dreamlands, gasconaded, hacendados, handedness, handfasted, handselled, headstands, landladies, landscaped, landslides, mandamused, misbranded, mishandled, pandowdies, radiosonde, reascended, resaddling, sandbagged, sandwiched, scandalled, secondhand, squadroned, squandered, syndicated, transduced, unadjusted, undercards, undergrads, understand, undismayed, unsteadied, vandalised, videolands, windlassed.
	+5 letters: adaptedness, aggrandised, backslidden, bandleaders, bastinadoed, beardedness, bladdernuts, borderlands, caddishness, candidacies, candidiases, candlewoods, crossbanded, datednesses, dazednesses, deadpanners, decadencies, decahedrons, dedications, dendrograms, denudations, dependances, desalinated, desalinized, descendants, disannulled, disarranged, disbandment, discordance, disentailed, dispreading, dragonheads, dunderheads, dundrearies, faddishness, gormandised, grandaddies, guardedness, haciendados, handmaidens, hendiadyses, incandesced, jadednesses, landholders, maidenheads, maidenhoods, meadowlands, nondisabled, pasquinaded, pseudomonad, radiosondes, sandblasted, sandpapered, scandalised, scandalized, shorthanded, skedaddling, standardise, standardize, superadding, transcended, unaddressed, unadvisedly, understands, understated, undiagnosed, unpersuaded, wonderlands, woodenheads, woodlanders.
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