Saddened vs Disheartened - What's the difference?
saddened | disheartened |
(sadden)
to make sad or unhappy
* (Alexander Pope)
* , chapter=7
, 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
Discouraged, despairing.
* 2004 , , Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage :
As verbs the difference between saddened and disheartened
is that saddened is (sadden) while disheartened is (dishearten).As an adjective disheartened is
discouraged, despairing.saddened
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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.
Anagrams
* * English ergative verbsdisheartened
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- He refused to get disheartened , even when all 50 writers polled by Newsweek predicted he would lose.