Suddenest vs Saddenest - What's the difference?
suddenest | saddenest |
As an adjective suddenest is ( sudden). As a verb saddenest is (archaic) ( sadden).
suddenest English
Adjective
(head)
(sudden)
sudden English
Adjective
( en adjective)
Happening quickly and with little or no warning.
*, chapter=1
, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , chapter=1
, passage=I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.}}
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(obsolete) Hastily prepared or employed; quick; rapid.
* Shakespeare
- Never was such a sudden scholar made.
* Milton
- the apples of Asphaltis, appearing goodly to the sudden eye
(obsolete) Hasty; violent; rash; precipitate.
* Shakespeare
- I have no joy of this contract to-night: It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden
Antonyms
* gradual
* unsudden
Derived terms
* all of a sudden
* sudden death
* suddenly
* suddenness
* suddenwoven
Adverb
( en adverb)
(poetic) Suddenly.
* Milton
- Herbs of every leaf that sudden flowered.
Noun
( en noun)
(obsolete) An unexpected occurrence; a surprise.
Derived terms
* all of a sudden
* all of the sudden
* of a sudden
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saddenest English
Verb
(head)
(archaic) (sadden)
sadden English
Verb
( en verb)
to make sad or unhappy
* (Alexander Pope)
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* , chapter=7
, title= 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.}}
(rare) to become sad or unhappy
* {{quote-book, year=1999, author=Mary Ann Mitchell, title=Drawn To The Grave citation
, passage=Hyacinth perfume tickled her senses, making her feel giddy, but she saddened when she saw how uncared for the garden was.}}
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(rare) to darken a color during dyeing
to render heavy or cohesive
* Mortimer
- Marl is binding, and saddening of land is the great prejudice it doth to clay lands.
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