Definition of Saddened

1. Verb. (past of ''sadden'') ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Saddened

1. sadden [v] - See also: sadden

Lexicographical Neighbors of Saddened

sad-iron
sad case
sad sack
sad sacks
sad to say
sadanagaite
sadcase
sadcases
sadcore
sadded
sadden
saddened (current term)
saddening
saddens
sadder
saddest
saddhu
saddhus
sadding
saddish
saddle
saddle-backed
saddle-bag
saddle-bags
saddle-billed stork
saddle-billed storks

Literary usage of Saddened

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (1916)
"pallor and her eyes, humbled and saddened by the dark shame of womanhood. While his soul had passed from ecstasy to languor where had she been? ..."

2. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1885)
"His old age was happy and honoured, saddened only by the deaths of his friends, and especially by the death of his wife, which took place in 1842. ..."

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