What is another word for saddening?
Pronunciation:
[ sˈadənɪŋ], [ sˈadənɪŋ], [ s_ˈa_d_ə_n_ɪ_ŋ]
Related words: sadness, saddening story, saddening event, saddening news, sad event, very sad, saddening past events
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Similar words for saddening:
- depressing (adjective)
- dispiriting (adjective)
- gloomy (adjective)
- joyless (adjective)
- melancholy (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- painful (adjective)
- plaintive (adjective)
- sad (adjective)
- other synonyms
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Saddening:
adj.
• depressing (adjective) • dispiriting (adjective) • gloomy (adjective)- most depressive,
- more acheronian,
- more acherontic,
- most acheronian,
- more depressive,
- de solate,
- most acherontic,
- de-solate.
- more depressant,
- have blahs,
- most dragged,
- more dragged,
- mopiest,
- most depressant,
- de-pressed,
- down mouth,
- de pressed,
- down the mouth,
- mopier.
- down out,
- de-stroyed,
- low spirited,
- un happiest,
- more mirthless,
- most mirthless,
- most saddened,
- down the dumps,
- un happy,
- un happier,
- de stroyed,
- un-happy,
- lowspirited,
- more saddened,
- down dumps.
- beefing,
- grousing,
- torn up,
- wailing,
- acheronian,
- joyless,
- heart-rending,
- sad,
- plaintive,
- painful,
- down in dumps,
- down in the dumps,
- in blue funk,
- have the blahs,
- mirthless,
- down in mouth,
- deplorable,
- acherontic,
- tenebrific,
- tearful,
- agonizing,
- melancholy,
- mopey,
- griefstricken,
- depressive,
- down and out,
- depressing,
- gloomy.
- dis tasteful,
- extremely bad,
- dis-tasteful,
- un pleasant,
- in-flamed,
- more throbbing,
- most throbbing,
- dis-agreeable,
- un-comfortable,
- un comfortable,
- smarting,
- un-pleasant,
- in flamed,
- more hurting,
- dis agreeable.
Other synonyms:
• Other relevant words (noun):- dejection,
- mourning,
- calamitous,
- poignant,
- misery,
- tragic,
- distress,
- grievous,
- woefulness,
- melancholic,
- glooming,
- sorrow,
- wretched,
- unhappily,
- drab,
- dreary,
- pain,
- upsetting,
- mournful,
- woebegone,
- mournfulness,
- pathetic,
- regrettable,
- pressing,
- sadden,
- affliction,
- dingy,
- piteous,
- worry about,
- rueful,
- bitter,
- lamentable,
- aggrieve,
- sombre,
- agony,
- affecting,
- Afflicting,
- wound,
- sore,
- Aggrieving,
- chagrin,
- lugubrious,
- disheartening,
- anguish,
- sorry,
- drear,
- discouraging,
- trouble,
- uncomfortable,
- plaintiveness,
- glum,
- woe,
- dolor,
- Paining,
- touching,
- grieve,
- woeful,
- nagging,
- blue,
- Dejecting,
- darkening,
- catastrophic,
- dolorous,
- sadness,
- dismal,
- moving,
- blues,
- shocking,
- bleak,
- Oppressing,
- pitiable,
- heartbreaking,
- Triste,
- Dulling,
- comfortless,
- dismaying,
- dark,
- grief,
- deplorably,
- disappointing,
- distressing,
- grieving,
- woefully,
- sorrowful,
- troubling,
- disconsolate,
- depress,
- calamity,
- sharp,
- disastrous,
- cheerless,
- grim,
- teary.
How to use "Saddening" in context?
The word "saddening" can best be described as heartbreaking. It is the experience of feeling sadness and regret over something that has happened. The emotion can be intense and overpowering, making it difficult to cope with. It can leave a person feeling drained and tired.
Saddening moments can come at any time, and often occur unexpectedly. They can be triggered by anything, be it the sound of laughter, the scent of flowers, or the sight of a happy family. They can be frustrating and frustratingly brief, or last forever.
Saddening moments can leave a person feeling helpless, alone, and out of control.
Paraphrases for Saddening:
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Forward Entailment
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Adjective
sad.
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Adjective
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Independent
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Adjective
disgusting, sobering, sorry.
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Verb, gerund or present participle
depressing.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Adjective
deplorable, depressing, dismal, distressing, grim, lamentable, miserable, painful, pathetic, regrettable, tragic, unfortunate, unhappy, upset, Saddened.
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Adjective
Homophones for Saddening:
- sedateness, siding, sighting, Stonehenge, sea tang, sightedness, sodding, seating, sitting, staunch, seediness, scudding, systemic, sudanese, studying, swathing, steaming, staidness, station house, shadiness, steadiness, shadowiness, Seth Thomas, shoddiness, systemize, stung, shutting, St. Athanasius, steadying, sauteing, sweetening, stoutness, stomachache, stinky, succeeding, stomach, stonewash, siddons, shouting, stance, stoning, shadowing, Stations, squattiness, six times, sting, suddenness, stanza, stannic, squatting, stannous, sodomize, shooting, stewing, sheathing, stenosis, stomach ache, scouting, sheet music, setting, sootiness, squatness, seething, St. Denis, stotinka, sweating, stanch, sustenance, systemise, St. Nick, sodomise, St. Thomas, Sweetness, staining, shading, skating, scathing, sadness, set to music, stone-wash, stingy, stunning, stone age, satang, soothing, stench, stomachic, Steaminess, stink, shedding, satanic, St. Dominic, suiting, sheeting, stowing.
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