Sadden vs Woebegone - What's the difference?
sadden | woebegone | Synonyms |
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
In a deplorable state.
Filled with or deeply affected by woe.
* 1957 , Jack Kerouac, On The Road?
Sadden is a synonym of woebegone.
As a verb sadden
is to make sad or unhappy.As a adjective woebegone is
in a deplorable state.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 verbswoebegone
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- When he was finished, as such, he was wringing wet, and now he had to edge and shimmy his way back, and with a most woebegone look, and everybody laughing, except the sad blond boy, and the Minnesotans roaring in the cab.