sorrowful
Adjective
- experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss; ; ; ; - Proverbs 14:13
- "sorrowful widows"
- "a sorrowful tale of death and despair"
- "sorrowful news"
- "even in laughter the heart is sorrowful"
Adj
- exhibiting sorrow; dejected; distraught; sad. (of a person)
- Producing sorrow; causing grief.
Examples
- sorrowful accident
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English sorweful, from Old English sorhful, sorgful (“full of care; anxious; sorrowful”), from Proto-Germanic *surgafullaz (“full of care; anxious”), equivalent to sorrow + -ful. Cognate with Old High German sorgfol (“careful; anxious”), Norwegian sorgfull (“sorrowful”), Icelandic sorgfullur (“lamentable”).
Synonyms
atrabiliary, atrabilious, blitheless, blue, bummed out, chapfallen, cheerless, chopfallen, crestfallen, cut up, damp, dejected, deplorable, depressed, depressing, despondent, disconsolate, disgruntled, disheartened, dismal, distressing, doleful, dolesome, down, down in the dumps, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, downsome, dull, elegiac, elegious, forlorn, gloomy, glum, grief-stricken, grieving, grievous, heartsick, heartsore, heavy-hearted, inconsolable, infelicitous, jawfallen, joyless, lachrymable, lachrymose, lamentable, lamentful, low, low-spirited, lugubrious, lumpish, melancholic, melancholy, miserable, moody, mopey, morose, mournful, passionate, pathetic, pathetisad, pitiable, pitiful, pitisome, plaintive, querulous, regrettable, rueful, sad, saddened, saddening, saturnine, shattered, solemn, sombre, sorrow-ridden, sorrowful, sorrowsome, spiritless, sullen, threnetic, threnetical, tragic, triste, tristful, uncheerful, uncheery, unconsolable, unhappy, unlively, upsetting, wistful, woe, woebegone, woeful, wretched
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 15
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