sadden

Other forms of sadden

past tense

saddenned·

present participle

saddenning·

third person

saddens·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about sadden

What does sadden mean?

sadden means "make unhappy". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sadden?

sadden has 2 syllables: sad-den. The stress falls on "sad". In IPA it is /ˈsædən/.

What is the opposite of sadden?

The recorded antonyms are gladden, gladden.

Is sadden a common word?

sadden is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.