Crossword clues for saddening
saddening
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sadden \Sad"den\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Saddened; p. pr. & vb. n. Saddening.] To make sad. Specifically:
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To render heavy or cohesive. [Obs.]
Marl is binding, and saddening of land is the great prejudice it doth to clay lands.
--Mortimer. To make dull- or sad-colored, as cloth.
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To make grave or serious; to make melancholy or sorrowful.
Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene.
--Pope.
Wiktionary
Causing sadness. v
(present participle of sadden English)
WordNet
adj. causing or suggestive of sorrow or gloom; "a gloomy outlook"; "gloomy news" [syn: depressing, depressive, gloomy]
Usage examples of "saddening".
It was saddening to know that multiplied intelligence had not quenched such an animal stampede.
Young muscles still had to exercise, but it was saddening to her that they weren't shouting.
Young muscles still had to exercise, but it was saddening to her that they weren’t shouting.
The only thing that was really saddening him was thinking about our mother.
Calamities were raining around the family and saddening his relatives, yet not one grazed the intrepid sub-lieutenant who was persisting in his daring deeds with the heroic nerve of a musketeer.
It was exciting to know where they were going, or where they’d been, and desperately saddening when I knew who had been injured.
Both of these Titans had become accustomed to the saddening suspicion within themselves that they were freaks.
He stubbed out his cigarette and went to intercept her, the heaviness in her walk saddening him.
If during her sojourn under his care, Antonina had insensibly influenced his heart, her image, now that he reflected on his guilty share in their parting scene, filled all his thoughts, at once saddening and shaming him, as he remembered her banishment from the shelter of his tent.