Disappointed vs Saddened - What's the difference?
disappointed | saddened |
Defeated of expectation or hope; let down.
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(sadden)
to make sad or unhappy
* (Alexander Pope)
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, title= (rare) to become sad or unhappy
* {{quote-book, year=1999, author=Mary Ann Mitchell, title=Drawn To The Grave
, passage=Hyacinth perfume tickled her senses, making her feel giddy, but she saddened when she saw how uncared for the garden was.}}
(rare) to darken a color during dyeing
to render heavy or cohesive
* Mortimer
As verbs the difference between disappointed and saddened
is that disappointed is past tense of disappoint while saddened is past tense of sadden.As an adjective disappointed
is defeated of expectation or hope; let down.disappointed
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=My hopes wa'n't disappointed . I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.}}
Synonyms
* discomfited * foiled * frustrated * thwartedVerb
(head)saddened
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
* *sadden
English
Verb
(en verb)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=The turmoil went on—no rest, no peace. […] It was nearly eleven o'clock now, and he strolled out again. In the little fair created by the costers' barrows the evening only seemed beginning; and the naphtha flares made one's eyes ache, the men's voices grated harshly, and the girls' faces saddened one.}}
citation
- Marl is binding, and saddening of land is the great prejudice it doth to clay lands.
