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It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy.
Thomas Huxley

Meaning of "saddening" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SADDENING

saddening  [ˈsædənɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SADDENING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Saddening is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES SADDENING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

saddening

Sadness

Sadness is emotional pain associated with, or characterized by feelings of disadvantage, loss, despair, helplessness and sorrow. An individual experiencing sadness may become quiet or lethargic, and withdraw themselves from others. Crying is often an indication of sadness. Sadness is one of the "six basic emotions" described by Paul Ekman, along with happiness, anger, surprise, fear and disgust.

Definition of saddening in the English dictionary

The definition of saddening in the dictionary is causing to make or become sad or unhappy.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SADDENING


air-conditioning
ˈɛəkənˌdɪʃ ənɪŋ
awakening
əˈweɪkənɪŋ
conditioning
kənˈdɪʃənɪŋ
deadening
ˈdedənɪŋ
gardening
ˈɡɑːdənɪŋ
governing
ˈɡʌvənɪŋ
happening
ˈhæpənɪŋ
hardening
ˈhɑːdənɪŋ
maddening
ˈmædənɪŋ
opening
ˈəʊpənɪŋ
poisoning
ˈpɔɪzənɪŋ
positioning
pəˈzɪʃənɪŋ
puddening
ˈpʊdənɪŋ
questioning
ˈkwɛstʃənɪŋ
reasoning
ˈriːzənɪŋ
strengthening
ˈstreŋθənɪŋ
threatening
ˈθrɛtənɪŋ
unpardoning
ʌnˈpɑːdənɪŋ
widening
ˈwaɪdənɪŋ
work-hardening
ˈwɜːkˌhɑːdənɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SADDENING

sadden
sadder
saddest
saddhu
saddish
saddle
saddle block
saddle gall
saddle horse
saddle joint
saddle roof
saddle shoes
saddle soap
saddle stitching
saddle-backed
saddle-like
saddle-sore
saddle-stitched
saddleback
saddlebag

WORDS THAT END LIKE SADDENING

beginning
christening
deepening
easy listening
enlightening
evening
frightening
good evening
grand opening
intervening
life-threatening
lightening
listening
screening
sharpening
shortening
thickening
tightening
weakening
whitening
worsening

Synonyms and antonyms of saddening in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «SADDENING»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «saddening» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of saddening

Translation of «saddening» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SADDENING

Find out the translation of saddening to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of saddening from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «saddening» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

可悲
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

triste
570 millions of speakers

English

saddening
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

saddening
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

محزن
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

печально
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

entristecedor
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

দুঃখজনক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

attristant
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Sedih
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

traurig
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

悲しませる
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

슬프게
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Saddening
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

buồn chút nào
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கவலையாக
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

दुःखी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

üzücü
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

triste
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

smuci
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

печально
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

întristător
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

λυπηρό
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

hartseer
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

saddening
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

trist
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of saddening

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SADDENING»

The term «saddening» is normally little used and occupies the 109.540 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SADDENING» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about saddening

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QUOTES WITH «SADDENING»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word saddening.
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Thomas Huxley
It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SADDENING»

Discover the use of saddening in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to saddening and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Saddening: Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases
Familiar Quotations SacrificingA nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten.ndash;Kemal Atatuuml;rkDreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice ...
‎2008
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Hawaii Dye Plants and Dye Recipes
SADDENING. The color of yarn dyed using the standard recipe for mordanting and dyeing can be altered by adding a second mordant to the dyebath during the last 5 to 15 minutes of the dyeing process. In order to brighten a color, a small ...
Val Krohn-Ching, 1980
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The art of dyeing, cleaning, scouring, and finishing: on the ...
Take up the stockings to drain, then put them in the saddening, and handle them well in this for twenty minutes. While saddening the stockings, stir up the fire so as to make the copper scalding hot. Then take up the stockings, and rinse them ...
Thomas Love, 1869
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A Practical Treatise on Dying of Woolen, Cotton, and Silk
This is understood to be the first saddening, and the boiling must not be so strong as in the first process. When the cloth has been in two hours, and has boiled gently at least one hour out of the two, take it out, having previously cooled the ...
William Partridge, 1847
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Climate and Society in Colonial Mexico: A Study in Vulnerability
'Most. sensitive. and. saddening. events': Flood. Risk. and. Social. Capital. Response. in. Colonial. Guanajuato79. The destruction wrought by sudden, violent and uncontrollable flooding was recognized as a recurrent problem for landowners ...
Georgina H. Endfield, 2011
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Christianity and statesmanship: with kindred topics
To any one who takes the New Testament as the standard of Christianity, it is saddening to look over the world and see how a simple religion, sent from heaven to attract men thither, has been subordinated to1 the low views and mean  ...
William Hague, 1855
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Metaphor and Non-metaphor: The Semantics of Adjective-noun ...
Thus for the phrases a sad event, a saddening event and a saddening_fool we get the same sort of reading, that is, one that can be paraphrased as "the concept denoted by the noun causes (a) human being(s) to feel sad". However, when ...
Jan M.G. Aarts, Joseph P. Calbert, 1979
8
Systemic Functional Grammar of Spanish: A Contrastive Study ...
... such distinction is some times blurred in Spanish, where the middle/pseudo- effective and effective meanings share the realization in Attributes such as entretenido, divertido (compare amused vs amusing in English), triste (sad vs saddening ...
Julia Lavid, Jorge Arús, Juan Rafael Zamorano-Mansilla, 2011
9
Kenya National Assembly Official Record (Hansard)
It is saddening for this Government, that from 1997, they have done nothing about the salaries of the teachers. It means, deliberately and wilfully, they are making the people with disabilities suffer. I want to inform this House that while the ...
10
Idea of Prose
Scholem once wrote that there is something infinitely saddening in the doctrine of the absence of object to supreme consciousness, an idea set out in the first pages of the Zohar and in any case the ultimate lesson of every mystic. In these ...
Giorgio Agamben, 1995

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SADDENING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term saddening is used in the context of the following news items.
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The Saddening, Dangerous Remarks of Franklin Graham
5150508205_4efef070c2_z On July 17, Franklin Graham made some deeply disturbing remarks on his Facebook page. This man who was once known for his ... «Patheos, Jul 15»
2
A saddening story of Smangele, the good child
A saddening story of Smangele, the good child. 09 July 2015, 10:39. Smangele was a go-getter, such a young and upcoming female of our time, she was really ... «News24, Jul 15»
3
Amber Heard On The "Saddening Injustice" Of Female Roles & Life …
Amber Heard is sick of being sent scripts full of "placeholder girls that are there to provide a bounce for the male character." The actress, who is gearing up for ... «Refinery29, Jun 15»
4
WE PRAY: Devon Still Shares Saddening Update On His Daughter's …
Cincinnati Bengals player Devon Still is updating us on his daughter Leah's health, and we're sorry to report she's experienced a setback. Devon shared via his ... «Global Grind, May 15»
5
England manager Roy Hodgson labels the corruption allegations …
'But as a football lover it affects me and it is very saddening...one hopes desperately that measures will be taken to make certain it doesn't happen again.'. «Daily Mail, May 15»
6
Budget failure on national bowel screening "saddening"
The lack of commitment to a national programme was "saddening" as it gave no hope for those affected by the disease, Bowel Cancer New Zealand chairwoman ... «Stuff.co.nz, May 15»
7
Karachi bus attack is deeply saddening and utterly condemnable …
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today condemned the attack in Karachi in which people from minority Shia Ismaili community were targeted and said ... «Firstpost, May 15»
8
Injured teacher calls pretrial hearing 'saddening and sickening'
The court proceedings were "saddening and sickening," said Budd, who faces a seventh surgery in the coming months. "It's hard to hear all that. I just think that ... «Sandusky Register, May 15»
9
Erdoğan says Turkey 'knows of saddening events of the past …
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Friday said Turkey knows of the saddening events that Armenian people have had in the past, and that he shares ... «Today's Zaman, Apr 15»
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The malaise of Parma FC is a truly saddening Italian soccer story
During the 90′s and early years of the new millennium the Italian Serie A was undoubtedly the number one league in Europe. Ronaldo, Marco Van Basten, ... «World Soccer Talk, Mar 15»

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