Encouraged vs Saddened - What's the difference?
encouraged | saddened |
(encourage)
To mentally support; to motivate, give courage, hope or spirit.
To spur on, strongly recommend.
To foster, give help or patronage
(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
As verbs the difference between encouraged and saddened
is that encouraged is past tense of encourage while saddened is past tense of sadden.encouraged
English
Verb
(head)encourage
English
Verb
(encourag)- I encouraged him during his race.
- We encourage the use of bicycles in the town centre.
- ''The royal family has always encouraged the arts in word and deed
Synonyms
* (l) * (l)Antonyms
* discourageDerived terms
* encouragement * encouraging * encouraginglysaddened
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.