Synonyms for Saddening:

• adj.

  •depressing (adjective)
  • hopeless,
  • dispiriting,
  • somber,
  • funereal.
  •dispiriting (adjective)
  • most crushing,
  • de moralizing,
  • de-moralizing.
  •gloomy (adjective)
  • most depressive,
  • more acheronian,
  • more acherontic,
  • most acheronian,
  • more depressive,
  • de solate,
  • most acherontic,
  • de-solate.
  •joyless (adjective)
  • more depressant,
  • have blahs,
  • most dragged,
  • more dragged,
  • mopiest,
  • most depressant,
  • de-pressed,
  • down mouth,
  • de pressed,
  • down the mouth,
  • mopier.
  •melancholy (adjective)
  • 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.
  •Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • 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.
  •painful (adjective)
  • 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.
  •plaintive (adjective)
  • more bellyaching,
  • more beefing,
  • most bellyaching,
  • out sorts,
  • most beefing,
  • grief stricken,
  • more grousing,
  • most wailing,
  • more wailing,
  • most grousing.
  •sad (adjective)
  • more discomposing,
  • dis-composing,
  • more heart-rending,
  • up setting,
  • most heart rending,
  • tearjerking,
  • un satisfactory,
  • more heart rending,
  • up-setting,
  • un-satisfactory,
  • dis composing,
  • tear jerking,
  • most discomposing,
  • most heart-rending,
  • heart rending.

• 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.

Paraphrases for Saddening:

• Forward Entailment

  • Adjective
    sad.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    sorry, sobering, disgusting.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    depressing.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    distressing, Saddened, lamentable, depressing, deplorable, tragic, miserable, regrettable, pathetic, painful, dismal, unfortunate, unhappy, upset, grim.

Antonyms for Saddening:

• adj.

  • Other antonyms:
    enjoyable, stirring, pleasant, inspiring, thrilling, cheery, uplifting, exhilarating, stimulating, agreeable, pleasing, glad, welcome, happy.

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.