saddened

The word “saddened” has 3 syllables: sad-den-ed

It's pronounced as /ˈsædnd/


What is synonym and antonym for saddened?

In the thesaurus, “saddened” has 181 synonyms and 107 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for saddened along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for saddened

  • afflicted
  • aggrieved
  • agitated
  • agonized
  • ailed
  • all torn up
  • anguished
  • antsy
  • anxious
  • bad
  • basket case
  • black
  • bleak
  • blue
  • bothered
  • brokenhearted
  • bugged
  • bummed out
  • bundle of nerves
  • burdened
  • cast down
  • chapfallen
  • cheerless
  • comfortless
  • concerned
  • crestfallen
  • cut up
  • dark
  • darkening
  • dashed
  • daunted
  • dejected
  • demoralized
  • depressed
  • depressing
  • desolate
  • despairing
  • despondent
  • destroyed
  • disappointed
  • discombobulated
  • discomforted
  • discomposed
  • disconsolate
  • discouraged
  • disheartened
  • dismal
  • dismayed
  • dispirited
  • disquieted
  • distracted
  • distrait
  • distraught
  • distressed
  • disturbed
  • doleful
  • dolorous
  • down
  • down and out
  • down in the dumps
  • down in the mouth
  • downbeat
  • downcast
  • downhearted
  • dragged
  • drear
  • dreary
  • droopy
  • elegiac
  • elegiacal
  • exercised
  • fidgety
  • forlorn
  • funereal
  • gloomy
  • glum
  • got down
  • gray
  • grey
  • grieved
  • grieving
  • grim
  • hangdog
  • harassed
  • harmed
  • heartbroken
  • heartsick
  • heartsore
  • heavy-hearted
  • heavyhearted
  • hopeless
  • hurt
  • hurting
  • hyper
  • in a blue funk
  • in a stew
  • in a tizzy
  • in blue funk
  • in pain
  • in the dumps
  • inconsolable
  • injured
  • jittery
  • joyless
  • jumpy
  • lachrymose
  • let-down
  • long-faced
  • low
  • low-spirited
  • lugubrious
  • melancholic
  • melancholy
  • miffed
  • mirthless
  • miserable
  • moody
  • moony
  • morbid
  • morose
  • mournful
  • murky
  • not happy
  • oppressed
  • pained
  • peeved
  • pensive
  • persecuted
  • perturbed
  • pitiful
  • plaintive
  • regretful
  • ripped
  • rueful
  • sad
  • saddening
  • saturnine
  • shaky
  • shook
  • shook-up
  • shot down
  • somber
  • sombre
  • sorrowful
  • sorry
  • spooked
  • strung-out
  • suicidal
  • sullen
  • sunk
  • tearful
  • teary
  • tormented
  • torn-up
  • tortured
  • trite
  • troubled
  • unconsolable
  • undid
  • uneasy
  • unglued
  • unhappy
  • unhinged
  • unnerved
  • unquiet
  • unsettled
  • up the wall
  • upset
  • uptight
  • wailing
  • weeping
  • weighed down
  • wet blanket
  • wired
  • wistful
  • woebegone
  • woeful
  • worried
  • wrecked
  • wretched
  • wronged

Antonyms for saddened

Meanings of saddened

  • verb
    1. To make sad or unhappy.
    2. To become sad or unhappy.
    3. To darken a color during dyeing.
    4. To render heavy or cohesive.

Example Sentences

  • The unexpected news saddened everyone in the room.
  • She was visibly saddened by the loss of her beloved pet.
  • The somber tone of the letter truly saddened her heart.
  • His departure saddened the entire team, leaving a void in their camaraderie.
  • We were all saddened to hear about the tragic events unfolding in the news.

On this page you'll find 288 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to saddened, such as: above, afflicted, aggrieved, agitated, agonized, ailed, all torn up.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

sad

  • abhorrent
  • abominable
  • affecting
  • aggrieved
  • agonized
  • anguished
  • bad
  • beastly
  • bereaved
  • bitter
  • black
  • bleak
  • blue
  • brokenhearted
  • calamitous
  • cast down
  • cheerless
  • comfortless
  • contemptible
  • crestfallen
  • dark
  • darkening
  • dejected
  • deplorable
  • depressed
  • depressing
  • desolate
  • despairing
  • despicable
  • despondent
  • detestable
  • disappointed
  • disastrous
  • discomforting
  • discomposing
  • disconsolate
  • discouraged
  • discouraging
  • discreditable
  • disgraceful
  • disgusting
  • disheartened
  • disheartening
  • dishonorable
  • dismal
  • dispirited
  • dispiriting
  • disquieting
  • disreputable
  • distressed
  • distressful
  • distressing
  • disturbing
  • doleful
  • dolorous
  • down
  • down in dumps
  • down in the mouth
  • downcast
  • downhearted
  • drear
  • dreary
  • droopy
  • elegiac
  • elegiacal
  • forlorn
  • funereal
  • gloomy
  • glum
  • grave
  • gray
  • grey
  • grief-stricken
  • grieved
  • grieving
  • grievous
  • hangdog
  • hapless
  • hateful
  • heart-rending
  • heartbreaking
  • heartbroken
  • heartrending
  • heartsick
  • heartsore
  • heavy-hearted
  • heavyhearted
  • hopeless
  • hurting
  • ignominious
  • in doldrums
  • in grief
  • in the dumps
  • inadequate
  • inconsolable
  • infamous
  • inferior
  • joyless
  • lachrymose
  • lame
  • lamentable
  • languishing
  • lousy
  • low
  • low-grade
  • low-quality
  • low-spirited
  • lugubrious
  • melancholic
  • melancholy
  • meritless
  • misbegotten
  • miserable
  • morbid
  • morose
  • mournful
  • moving
  • murky
  • notorious
  • odious
  • oppressive
  • out of sorts
  • pathetic
  • pensive
  • perturbing
  • pessimistic
  • piteous
  • pitiable
  • pitiful
  • plaintive
  • poignant
  • poor
  • regretful
  • regrettable
  • rueful
  • saddened
  • saddening
  • saturnine
  • scandalous
  • second-class
  • serious
  • shabby
  • shameful
  • shocking
  • shoddy
  • sick at heart
  • somber
  • sombre
  • sordid
  • sorrowful
  • sorry
  • stinking
  • suicidal
  • sullen
  • sunk
  • tear-jerking
  • tearful
  • teary
  • touching
  • tragic
  • troubled
  • uneasy
  • unfortunate
  • unhappy
  • unquiet
  • unsatisfactory
  • unsavory
  • unworthy
  • upset
  • upsetting
  • wailing
  • weeping
  • wistful
  • woebegone
  • woeful
  • worried
  • worthless
  • wretched

saddening

  • acheronian
  • acherontic
  • aching
  • achy
  • affecting
  • afflicting
  • afflictive
  • agitating
  • agonizing
  • ailing
  • arduous
  • awful
  • bad
  • beefing
  • bellyaching
  • biting
  • black
  • bleak
  • blue
  • bothering
  • burdening
  • burning
  • calamitous
  • cantankerous
  • caustic
  • cheerless
  • cold
  • comfortless
  • concerning
  • crabby
  • cranky
  • crushing
  • dark
  • dashing
  • daunting
  • dejected
  • dejecting
  • demoralizing
  • deplorable
  • depressant
  • depressed
  • depressing
  • depressive
  • desolate
  • despondent
  • destroyed
  • difficult
  • dire
  • disagreeable
  • disastrous
  • discomforting
  • discomposing
  • disconsolate
  • discouraging
  • disheartening
  • dismal
  • dismaying
  • dispirited
  • dispiriting
  • disquieting
  • distasteful
  • distressful
  • distressing
  • disturbing
  • doleful
  • dolorous
  • down
  • down and out
  • down in the dumps
  • down in the mouth
  • downbeat
  • downcast
  • downhearted
  • drab
  • dragged
  • dreadful
  • drear
  • dreary
  • droopy
  • dull
  • dusky
  • excruciating
  • exercising
  • extreme
  • extremely bad
  • funereal
  • getting down
  • gloomy
  • glum
  • grave
  • grief-stricken
  • grievous
  • grim
  • grousing
  • grumpy
  • hapless
  • hard
  • harrowing
  • have the blahs
  • heart-rending
  • heart-wrenching
  • heartbreaking
  • heartrending
  • heavy
  • heavy-hearted
  • hopeless
  • hurtful
  • hurting
  • in blue funk
  • inflamed
  • irritated
  • joyless
  • laborious
  • lachrymose
  • lamentable
  • lamenting
  • low
  • low-spirited
  • lugubrious
  • melancholic
  • melancholy
  • mirthless
  • miserable
  • moody
  • moony
  • mopey
  • morose
  • mournful
  • moving
  • nagging
  • oppressing
  • oppressive
  • out of sorts
  • pathetic
  • pensive
  • perturbing
  • piercing
  • piteous
  • pitiable
  • pitiful
  • poignant
  • raw
  • regrettable
  • rueful
  • sad
  • saddened
  • sensitive
  • serious
  • severe
  • shabby
  • sharp
  • smarting
  • somber
  • sore
  • sorrowful
  • sorry
  • stinging
  • tear-jerking
  • tearful
  • teary
  • tedious
  • tender
  • tenebrific
  • terrible
  • throbbing
  • tormenting
  • torn-up
  • torturing
  • touching
  • tragic
  • trite
  • troublesome
  • troubling
  • trying
  • uncomfortable
  • undoing
  • unfortunate
  • unhappy
  • unhinging
  • unnerving
  • unpleasant
  • unsatisfactory
  • unsettling
  • upsetting
  • vexatious
  • wailing
  • weighing down
  • wet blanket
  • wistful
  • woebegone
  • woeful
  • worrying
  • wretched

bad

dashed

  • abject
  • accelerated
  • afflicted
  • agitated
  • ailed
  • all torn up
  • arrowed
  • atrabilious
  • ausgespielt
  • barreled
  • barrelled
  • bathed
  • beat
  • beat it
  • beat-down
  • beaten
  • beelined
  • beetled
  • belted
  • bespattered
  • black
  • blasted
  • blazed
  • bleak
  • blew
  • blue
  • bolted
  • bombed
  • bothered
  • bounded
  • bowled
  • breezed
  • broken
  • broody
  • bucked
  • bummed out
  • bundled
  • burdened
  • bustled
  • buzzed
  • cannonballed
  • cantered
  • careened
  • careered
  • cast
  • cast down
  • catapulted
  • caught up
  • caved-in
  • chased
  • cheerless
  • chucked
  • clouded
  • concerned
  • conquered
  • cooked
  • coursed
  • crestfallen
  • dabbled
  • dampened
  • darted
  • daunted
  • dead
  • defeated
  • dejected
  • demoralized
  • depressed
  • despondent
  • destroyed
  • deterred
  • discomforted
  • discomposed
  • disconsolate
  • discouraged
  • disheartened
  • dismal
  • dismayed
  • dispirited
  • disquieted
  • distressed
  • disturbed
  • doleful
  • done in
  • doomed
  • doused
  • down
  • down in the dumps
  • down in the mouth
  • downbeat
  • downcast
  • downhearted
  • dowsed
  • dragged
  • drenched
  • drooping
  • droopy
  • drove
  • drowned
  • dying
  • eighty-sixed
  • ejected
  • exercised
  • exhausted
  • fast-forwarded
  • finished
  • fired
  • flew
  • flipped
  • flitted
  • flung
  • foiled
  • galloped
  • gloomy
  • glum
  • gone to pieces
  • got a move on
  • got down
  • gunned
  • had it
  • hared
  • hastened
  • heaved
  • heavy-hearted
  • hied
  • highballed
  • hooked
  • hove
  • humped
  • hurled
  • hurried
  • hurting
  • hurtled
  • hustled
  • impelled
  • impregnated
  • in a funk
  • in blue funk
  • in the dumps
  • in the pits
  • jetted
  • jogged
  • jumped
  • kaput
  • lapped
  • launched
  • leaped
  • leapt
  • let fly
  • lobbed
  • lofted
  • loped
  • lost
  • lost momentum
  • low
  • low-spirited
  • made tracks
  • melancholy
  • miserable
  • moody
  • mopey
  • mopish
  • morose
  • motored
  • nipped
  • oppressed
  • outpaced
  • outran
  • outstripped
  • overtook
  • packed up
  • passed
  • pattered
  • pegged
  • pelted
  • perturbed
  • pessimistic
  • pitched
  • plashed
  • precipitated
  • projected
  • propelled
  • quickened
  • raced
  • rammed
  • ran
  • rifled
  • ripped
  • rocketed
  • rolled
  • ruined
  • run
  • rushed
  • rustled
  • sad
  • saddened
  • sagging
  • saturated
  • scampered
  • scooted
  • scudded
  • scuffled
  • scurried
  • scuttled
  • shagged
  • shook a leg
  • shot
  • shot down
  • skipped
  • slopped
  • sloshed
  • slung
  • slushed
  • soaked
  • sopped
  • soused
  • spattered
  • sped
  • speeded
  • spiritless
  • splashed
  • splattered
  • sprang
  • sprayed
  • sprinkled
  • sprinted
  • spritzed
  • sprung
  • squirted
  • stampeded
  • steeped
  • stepped
  • stepped on it
  • stepped out
  • streaked
  • sunk
  • swashed
  • threw
  • through
  • thrust
  • tired
  • tore
  • tormented
  • tortured
  • tossed
  • traveled
  • travelled
  • tripped
  • trotted
  • troubled
  • undid
  • undone
  • unhinged
  • unnerved
  • unsettled
  • upset
  • vanquished
  • washed
  • washed-up
  • watered
  • weighed down
  • whirled
  • whisked
  • whizzed
  • woebegone
  • worried
  • wrecked
  • wretched
  • zipped
  • zoomed

daunted

  • Milquetoast
  • abashed
  • afflicted
  • affrighted
  • afraid
  • aghast
  • agitated
  • alarmed
  • ambivalent
  • anxious
  • appalled
  • apprehensive
  • aroused
  • bad
  • badgered
  • bashful
  • beat
  • beat-down
  • blanched
  • blue
  • bothered
  • brooding
  • browbeat
  • browbeaten
  • bullied
  • bummed out
  • capricious
  • careful
  • cast down
  • cautious
  • caved-in
  • chapfallen
  • cheerless
  • chicken
  • chilled
  • coward
  • cowardly
  • cowed
  • cowering
  • coy
  • craven
  • crestfallen
  • damped
  • dampened
  • dashed
  • deadened
  • debilitated
  • dejected
  • demoralized
  • demure
  • depressed
  • despondent
  • deterred
  • diffident
  • disappointed
  • disconcerted
  • disconsolate
  • discouraged
  • disheartened
  • dismayed
  • dispirited
  • disquieted
  • distressed
  • disturbed
  • doleful
  • down
  • down in the dumps
  • down in the mouth
  • down-in-the-mouth
  • downbeat
  • downcast
  • downhearted
  • dragged
  • droopy
  • dull
  • enfeebled
  • faint-hearted
  • fainthearted
  • fearful
  • fearsome
  • feeble
  • forlorn
  • frightened
  • frozen
  • frustrated
  • funky
  • gentle
  • gloomy
  • glum
  • gone to pieces
  • gutless
  • have cold feet
  • having cold feet
  • heartsick
  • heedful
  • horrified
  • horror-struck
  • humble
  • hysteric
  • hysterical
  • in a funk
  • in awe
  • in blue funk
  • in pain
  • in the dumps
  • intimidated
  • irked
  • irresolute
  • jittery
  • jumpy
  • lily-livered
  • listless
  • lost momentum
  • low
  • low-spirited
  • miserable
  • modest
  • moody
  • mopey
  • morose
  • mousy
  • nervous
  • oppressed
  • panic-stricken
  • panicked
  • panicky
  • perplexed
  • perturbed
  • pessimistic
  • petrified
  • phobic
  • prudent
  • pusillanimous
  • rattled
  • retiring
  • run scared
  • sad
  • saddened
  • scared
  • scared stiff
  • scared to death
  • scary
  • shaky
  • shocked
  • shot down
  • shrinking
  • shy
  • singing the blues
  • skittish
  • soft
  • spineless
  • spiritless
  • spooked
  • startled
  • stunned
  • submissive
  • sunk
  • suspicious
  • terrified
  • terror-stricken
  • terrorized
  • threw cold water on
  • timid
  • timorous
  • trembling
  • tremulant
  • tremulous
  • tried
  • troubled
  • unadventurous
  • unassertive
  • unassured
  • undermined
  • uneasy
  • unmanned
  • unnerved
  • upset
  • vacillating
  • vexed
  • vext
  • wary
  • wavering
  • weak
  • weakened
  • weighed
  • weighed down
  • woebegone
  • worried
  • yellow

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