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What is the adjective for saddest?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb sadden which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

sad
  1. (heading) Emotionally negative.
    1. Feeling sorrow; sorrowful, mournful.
    2. Appearing sorrowful.
    3. Causing sorrow; lamentable.
    4. Poor in quality, bad; shameful, deplorable; later, regrettable, poor.
    5. Of colours: dark, deep; later, sombre, dull.
  2. (obsolete) Sated, having had one's fill; satisfied, weary.
  3. (obsolete) Steadfast, valiant.
  4. (obsolete) Dignified, serious, grave.
  5. (obsolete) Naughty; troublesome; wicked.
  6. (slang) Unfashionable; socially inadequate or undesirable.
  7. (dialect) Soggy (to refer to pastries).
  8. (obsolete) Heavy; weighty; ponderous; close; hard.
  9. Synonyms:
      10. sorrowful, unhappy, miserable, mournful, upset, depressed, heartbroken, somber, sombre, blue, dejected, demoralised, demoralized, desolate, despondent, disconsolate, disheartened, dispirited, distressed, down, forlorn, glum, hurt, melancholy, pessimistic, sullen, troubled, wistful, bereaved, bitter, cheerless, doleful, downcast, down in dumps, down in mouth, gloomy, grief-stricken, grieved, hapless, heartsick, heavyhearted, in doldrums, in grief, in the dumps, joyless, low, low-spirited, lugubrious, moody, morbid … more
  10. Examples:
      11. “Elijah was sad because he couldn't play outside due to the bad weather.”
      “It's sad that her grandmother has passed away.”
      “The aging singer's sad performance was testament to the fact that he was well past his prime.”
sadsome
  1. Somewhat sad; indicating or marked by sadness
  2. Examples:
      3. “Meronym's griefsome face jus' said, Nay, she's too far gone I can't do nothin', an' she kissed my sis's forehead g'bye, walked back sadsome into the rain.”
sadful
  1. (rare, poetic) Full of sadness; sorrowful.
saddening
  1. Causing sadness.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. depressing, sad, dismal, dreary, melancholy, heartbreaking, mournful, sorry, pathetic, drear, heartrending, tearful, teary, distressing, upsetting, tragic, harrowing, sombre, somber, cheerless, poignant, gloomy, wretched, miserable, woeful, heart-rending, grim, pitiful, doleful, painful, agonizing, dispiriting, distressful, disturbing, sorrowful, lamentable, disheartening, unfortunate, agonising, discouraging, piteous, joyless, moving, traumatic, affecting, dire, bleak, regrettable, melancholic, grievous … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “The thought of the lovely Cinnabar moth and their attractive caterpillars losing their food source is saddening.”
saddish
  1. (informal) Somewhat sad.
  2. Examples:
      3. “Ronnie pulled up one of the benches so he could sit in front of Roberto, a saddish expression upon his face.”
sadder
  1. comparative form of sad: more sad
  2. Synonyms:
      3. worse, inferior, poorer, shoddier, direr, dodgier, grottier, hackier, junkier, lousier, poor, poxier, ropier, shabbier, sorrier, tawdrier, trashier, of inferior quality, of poorer quality, not as good as, more abysmal, more appalling, more atrocious, more deficient, more deplorable, more diabolical, more direful, more dismal, more dreadful, more execrable, more flawed, more imperfect, more inadequate, more lamentable, more mediocre, more pathetic, more pitiful, more suboptimal, more subpar, more sub-par, more substandard, more terrible, more unacceptable, more unsatisfactory, more worthless, not so good, not as good, not as favorable, not as nice, not as pleasing … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Even sadder was the mid-2002 suddenness with which Our Man Geoffrey, large as life, disappeared from the small screen.”
      “But on a sadder note, I think my lips have developed antibodies to the tingly sensation.”
      “Poorer and sadder, the couple reunite and have to make their way home on a tramp steamer.”
saddest
  1. superlative form of sad: most sad
  2. Synonyms:
      3. unhappiest, miserablest, mournfullest, somberest, sombrest, forlornest, glummest, sullenest, bitterest, dolefulest, gloomiest, lowest, moodiest, morosest, teariest, weepiest, crabbiest, sulkiest, blackest, droopiest, grayest, greyest, most sorrowful, most upset, most depressed, most heartbroken, most blue, most dejected, most desolate, most despondent, most disconsolate, most disheartened, most dispirited, most distressed, most hurt, most melancholy, most pessimistic, most troubled, most wistful, most bereaved, most cheerless, most downcast, most grief-stricken, most hapless, most heartsick, most joyless, most low-spirited, most lugubrious, most morbid, most out of sorts … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “It was the saddest day in her life, for it felt like she had finally abandoned her love for Julian, that she had betrayed his memory.”
      “Perhaps the saddest part of Dee's story, though, was the failure of her marriage to Darin.”
      “The very saddest day of both of our lives was on my 18th birthday when my mother took off.”
saddened
  1. simple past tense and past participle of sadden
  2. Synonyms:
      3. depressed, distressed, dejected, upset, dispirited, grieved, disheartened, discouraged, oppressed, burdened, dismayed, dashed, pained, desolated, aggrieved, pressed, prest, deplored, downed, cast down, weighed down, bummed out, got down, made sad, brought down, cast a gloom upon, turned off, brought tears to your eyes, dampened spirits, dragged down, made blue, broke one's heart, broken one's heart, threw cold water on, thrown cold water on, cast a gloom on, put a damper on, put into a funk, poured cold water on, afflicted, hurt, troubled, harrowed, crushed, tormented, daunted, perturbed, disturbed, demoralized, bothered … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “I felt saddened by his description of himself as a "Nellie old queen," and I felt even more saddened that I had been thinking the same thing about him.”
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