11 definitions found for Sorrowful

Sorrowful SOR'ROWFUL, A.
1. Sad; grieving for the loss of some good, or on account of some expected evil.
2. Deeply serious; depressed; dejected. I Sam. 1.
3. Producing sorrow; exciting grief; mournful; as a sorrowful accident.
4. Expressing grief; accompanied with grief; as sorrowful meat. Job 6.

sorrowful adj 1: experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss; "sorrowful widows"; "a sorrowful tale of death and despair"; "sorrowful news"; "even in laughter the heart is sorrowful"- Proverbs 14:13 [ant: joyful]

sorrowful adjective Date: before 12th century 1. full of or marked by sorrow <a sorrowful good-bye> 2. expressive of or inducing sorrow <sorrowful eyes> • sorrowfully adverb • sorrowfulness noun

sorrowful
adj.
1 feeling or showing sorrow.
2 distressing, lamentable.
Derivatives:
sorrowfully adv. sorrowfulness n.
Etymology: OE sorhful (as SORROW, -FUL)

sorrowful Sorrowful means very sad. (LITERARY) His father's face looked suddenly soft and sorrowful... ADJ

sorrowful ˈsɔrəful adj. 1 feeling or showing sorrow. 2 distressing, lamentable. øøsorrowfully adv. sorrowfulness n. [OE sorhful (as SORROW, -FUL)]

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Sorrowful Sor"row*ful, a. [OE. sorweful, AS. sorgful.] 1. Full of sorrow; exhibiting sorrow; sad; dejected; distressed. ``This sorrowful prisoner.'' --Chaucer. My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death. --Matt. xxvi. 38. 2. Producing sorrow; exciting grief; mournful; lamentable; grievous; as, a sorrowful accident. Syn: Sad; mournful; dismal; disconsolate; drear; dreary; grievous; lamentable; doleful; distressing. -- Sor"row*ful*ly, adv. -- Sor"row*ful*ness, n.

sorrowful a. 1. Grieved, afflicted, in sorrow, in mourning, sad, depressed, dejected. 2. Sad, mournful, grievous, lamentable, distressing, painful, melancholy, baleful. 3. Dismal, disconsolate, drear, dreary, rueful, woful, doleful, melancholy, sorry, piteous, lugubrious.

sorrowful ˈsɔrəful adj. 1 sad, unhappy, regretful, sorry, depressed, dejected, crestfallen, chap-fallen, gloomy, downcast, blue, dispirited, melancholy, in the doldrums, wretched, woebegone, miserable, heartsick, disheartened, piteous, heavy-hearted, broken-hearted, rueful, woeful, tearful, disconsolate, inconsolable, grief-stricken, Colloq down in the mouth, down in the dumps: The entire family was sorrowful to learn of Carriston's death. 2 distressing, lamentable, doleful, unfortunate, bitter, distressful, troublous, grievous, unlucky, hapless, afflictive: What a sorrowful life some of those miners' families have led!

96 Moby Thesaurus words for "sorrowful": Jeremianic, affecting, afflicted, afflictive, aggrieved, anguished, bitter, bleak, blue, careworn, cheerless, comfortless, complaining, crestfallen, dejected, deplorable, depressed, depressing, depressive, discomforting, disconsolate, disheartened, dismal, dismaying, dispirited, distressful, distressing, doleful, dolorific, dolorogenic, dolorous, downcast, dreary, dumb with grief, faultfinding, fretful, gloomy, grief-stricken, griefful, grieved, grievous, hapless, heartsick, howling, in grief, in the doldrums, inconsolable, joyless, lamentable, lamentive, lugubrious, melancholy, miserable, moanful, mournful, moving, painful, pathetic, peevish, petulant, piteous, pitiable, plaintive, plangent, plunged in grief, poignant, puling, querulous, regretful, regrettable, rueful, ruthful, sad, saddening, sharp, sore, sorrow-laden, sorrow-stricken, sorrowed, sorrowing, sorry, tearful, touching, troublous, ululant, uncomfortable, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky, wailful, whimpering, whining, whiny, woebegone, woeful, wretched