Depressed vs Saddened - What's the difference?
depressed | saddened |
(depress)
unhappy, and blaming oneself rather than others; despondent
Suffering from clinical depression.
Suffering damaging effects of economic recession.
(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 depressed and saddened
is that depressed is (depress) while saddened is (sadden).As an adjective depressed
is unhappy, and blaming oneself rather than others; despondent.depressed
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(head)Adjective
(en adjective)Derived terms
* depressedly * depressednessSynonyms
* despondent * gloomy * melancholy * miserable * sad * unhappy * emo (qualifier)Antonyms
* cheerfulsaddened
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(head)Anagrams
* *sadden
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(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.