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saddening
adjective as in depressing
adjective as in dispiriting
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adjective as in gloomy
adjective as in joyless
adjective as in melancholy
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adjective as in nagging
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adjective as in painful
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adjective as in plaintive
adjective as in sad
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adjective as in smarting
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Example Sentences
They present a saddening spectacle, these faded reputations, these dethroned monarchs!
It was a saddening sight to see these beauties burning slowly away.
My disposition is so faultily anxious and foreboding that I am not likely to forget anything of a saddening sort.
But how saddening to think of the iniquities that the great harvest-moon is looking down on!
In one feeling something there is certain to be something that in being discouraging is not saddening.
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On this page you'll find 446 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to saddening, such as: bleak, daunting, disheartening, dismal, dispiriting, and distressing.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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