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Definition: Saddening |
SaddeningAdjective1. Causing or suggestive of sorrow or gloom; "a gloomy outlook"; "gloomy news". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "saddening" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Synonyms: SaddeningSynonyms: depressing (adj), depressive (adj), gloomy (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Saddening |
| English words defined with "saddening": Luctual. (references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | These meetings with strange children are among the seductive but at the same time saddening charms of the environs of Paris. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Saddening" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Saddening" is used about 3 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 (-ing form) | 66.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 33.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "saddening"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | كئيب (bleak, blue, cheerless, damp, dark, dejected, depressed, depressing, depressive, desolate, disconsolate, dismal, dispirited, distressful, distressing, doleful, dolorous, down, downcast, down-hearted, drear, dreary, droopy, dyspeptic, funeral, funereal, gloomy, glum, gray, grey, grief-stricken, grieved, grievous, heavy-hearted, ill, joyless, leaden, lifeless, low-spirited, melancholic, melancholy, moody, mournful, out of spirits, rueful, sad, somber, sombre, spiritless, sullen, tearful, weary), محزن (depressing, dismal, distressing, doleful, dolorous, gloomy, grievous, mournful, pathetic, rueful, sad, sorrowful, tragic, woeful), رثى له (pitiable, pitiful, pity, puny, rueful, ruefully, sorry, woeful). (various references) | |
Chinese | 难过 (sadden, Saddened). (various references) | |
French | attristant (sad), affligeant. (various references) | |
German | betrübend (afflicting, afflictive). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מעציב (depressing, dolorous, melancholy, sad, sorry, woeful), מצער (dearth, deplorable, distressing, fewness, grievous, lamentable, littleness, paucity, regrettable, sad, smallness, sore, sorrowful). (various references) | |
Hungarian | elszomorító (depressing, distressing, woeful). (various references) | |
Korean | 슬"게 함. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | addeningsay.(various references) | |
Romanian | întristãtor (melancholy, sad, sickening, sorry, woeful). (various references) | |
Russian | опечаливать грустный. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Saddening" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: baddening, Saadeddine, Saddawi, Sadeqi, sawdering. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "saddening" (pronounced sa"duning or sa"dning) |
| 6 | -a" d u n i ng | maddening. |
| 5 | -d u n i ng | abandoning, broadening, burdening, deadening, gardening, hardening, pardoning, widening. |
| 4 | -u n i ng | apportioning, auctioning, auditioning, awakening, bargaining, battening, beckoning, blackening, bludgeoning, brightening, burgeoning, captioning, cautioning, championing, cheapening, christening, coarsening, commissioning, conditioning, cushioning, dampening, darkening, deafening, decommissioning, deepening, determining, disciplining, disheartening, disillusioning, enlightening, envisioning, examining, fashioning, fastening, fattening, flattening, freshening, frightening, functioning, glistening, happening, hastening, heartening, heightening, imagining, imprisoning, jettisoning, leavening, lengthening, lessening, lightening, likening, listening, loosening, malfunctioning, margining, mentioning, motioning, opening, orphaning, partitioning, petitioning, poisoning, positioning, provisioning, questioning, quickening, rationing, reasoning, reawakening, reckoning, reconditioning, reexamining, reopening, repositioning, ripening, ruining, sanctioning, seasoning, sectioning, sharpening, shortening, sickening, siphoning, slackening, softening, stationing, stiffening, straightening, strengthening, summoning, sweetening, thickening, threatening, tightening, toughening, unquestioning, vacationing, weakening, whitening, worsening. |
| 3 | -n i ng | abstaining, adjoining, adjourning, aligning, ascertaining, assigning, attaining, awning, ballooning, banning, beginning, bemoaning, binning, boning, branning, brining, Browning, burning, campaigning, caning, Canning, careening, cartooning, chaining, chaperoning, churning, cleaning, cloning, clowning, cocooning, coining, combining, complaining, concerning, condoning, confining, conning, constraining, containing, convening, Corning, couponing, crooning, crowning, cunning, dawning, declining, defining, demeaning, Denning, designing, detaining, dining, Dinning, discerning, disdaining, divining, donning, Downing, draining, droning, drowning, Dunning, Durning, earning, enjoining, entertaining, evening, explaining, fanning, fawning, feigning, fining, finning, frowning, gaining, ginning, governing, greening, grinning, groaning, gunning, headlining, honing, Horning, housecleaning, impugning, inning, intertwining, intervening, intoning, ironing, jawboning, joining, Kenning, leaning, learning, lightning, lining, loaning, machining, maintaining, Manning, meaning, midmorning, mining, moaning, morning, mourning, obtaining, opining, ordaining, outlining, overrunning, overtraining, overturning, owning, panning, penning, pertaining, phoning, pining, pinning, planning, postponing, preening, preplanning, pruning, quarantining, raining, realigning, reassigning, reclining, redefining, redesigning, redlining, refining, refraining, regaining, reigning, reining, rejoining, relearning, remaining, rerunning, resigning, restraining, retaining, retraining, returning, rezoning, running, scanning, screening, shining, shunning, signing, sinning, spanning, spawning, spinning, spurning, staining, stoning, straining, streamlining, stunning, sunning, sustaining, swooning, tanning, telephoning, thinning, toning, training, tuning, turning, twining, underlining, undermining, underpinning, unreasoning, Vining, waning, warning, weaning, whining, wining, winning, yawning, yearning, zoning. |
| 3 | -n i ng | abandoning, abstaining, adjoining, adjourning, aligning, apportioning, ascertaining, assigning, attaining, auctioning, auditioning, awakening, awning, ballooning, banning, bargaining, battening, beckoning, beginning, bemoaning, binning, blackening, bludgeoning, boning, branning, brightening, brining, broadening, Browning, burdening, burgeoning, burning, campaigning, caning, Canning, captioning, careening, cartooning, cautioning, chaining, championing, chaperoning, cheapening, christening, churning, cleaning, cloning, clowning, coarsening, cocooning, coining, combining, commissioning, complaining, concerning, conditioning, condoning, confining, conning, constraining, containing, convening, Corning, couponing, crooning, crowning, cunning, cushioning, dampening, darkening, dawning, deadening, deafening, declining, decommissioning, deepening, defining, demeaning, Denning, designing, detaining, determining, dining, Dinning, discerning, disciplining, disdaining, disheartening, disillusioning, divining, donning, Downing, draining, droning, drowning, Dunning, Durning, earning, enjoining, enlightening, entertaining, envisioning, evening, examining, explaining, fanning, fashioning, fastening, fattening, fawning, feigning, fining, finning, flattening, freshening, frightening, frowning, functioning, gaining, gardening, ginning, glistening, governing, greening, grinning, groaning, gunning, happening, hardening, hastening, headlining, heartening, heightening, honing, Horning, housecleaning, imagining, imprisoning, impugning, inning, intertwining, intervening, intoning, ironing, jawboning, jettisoning, joining, Kenning, leaning, learning, leavening, lengthening, lessening, lightening, lightning, likening, lining, listening, loaning, loosening, machining, maddening, maintaining, malfunctioning, Manning, margining, meaning, mentioning, midmorning, mining, moaning, morning, motioning, mourning, obtaining, opening, opining, ordaining, orphaning, outlining, overrunning, overtraining, overturning, owning, panning, pardoning, partitioning, penning, pertaining, petitioning, phoning, pining, pinning, planning, poisoning, positioning, postponing, preening, preplanning, provisioning, pruning, quarantining, questioning, quickening, raining, rationing, realigning, reasoning, reassigning, reawakening, reckoning, reclining, reconditioning, redefining, redesigning, redlining, reexamining, refining, refraining, regaining, reigning, reining, rejoining, relearning, remaining, reopening, repositioning, rerunning, resigning, restraining, retaining, retraining, returning, rezoning, ripening, ruining, running, sanctioning, scanning, screening, seasoning, sectioning, sharpening, shining, shortening, shunning, sickening, signing, sinning, siphoning, slackening, softening, spanning, spawning, spinning, spurning, staining, stationing, stiffening, stoning, straightening, straining, streamlining, strengthening, stunning, summoning, sunning, sustaining, sweetening, swooning, tanning, telephoning, thickening, thinning, threatening, tightening, toning, toughening, training, tuning, turning, twining, underlining, undermining, underpinning, unquestioning, unreasoning, vacationing, Vining, waning, warning, weakening, weaning, whining, whitening, widening, wining, winning, worsening, yawning, yearning, zoning. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: desanding. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-g-i-n-n-s" | |
-1 letter: snedding. | |
-2 letters: dandies, deaning, endings, sanding, sending. | |
-3 letters: adding, danged, dedans, deigns, desand, design, dinged, dinges, dinned, easing, ending, ensign, gaddis, gadids, gained, ginned, inanes, insane, sadden, sained, sanded, saning, sienna, signed, singed, sinned. | |
-4 letters: aegis, aided, aides, anise, aside, dangs, deads, deans, degas, deign, dined, dines, dinge, dings, egads, gaddi, gadid, gadis, gains, ideas, inane, inned, nided, nides, nines, saned, sedan, segni, sengi, senna, sided, singe, snide. | |
-5 letters: adds, aged, ages, agin, aide, aids, ains, ands, anes, anis, dads, dags, dais, dang, dead, dean, deni, dens, died, dies, digs, dine, ding, dins, egad, egis, ends, engs, gadi, gads, gaed, gaen, gaes, gain, gane, geds, gens, gids, gied, gien, gies, gins, idea, ides, inns, nags, nans, nide, nine, sade, sadi, sage, said, sain, sand, sane, sang, send, side, sign, sine, sing, snag, sned. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-d-e-g-i-n-n-s" | |
+1 letter: deadenings. | |
+2 letters: undiagnosed. | |
+3 letters: disentangled, undesignated. | |
+4 letters: demandingness, understanding. | |
+5 letters: highhandedness, understandings. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 61 64 64 65 6E 69 6E 67 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... .- -.. -.. . -. .. -. --. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100001 01100100 01100100 01100101 01101110 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S a d d e n i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0061 0064 0064 0065 006E 0069 006E 0067 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)536770707180758073 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Quotations: Fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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