SORROWFUL DEFINITIONS - 11 definitions found
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] Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) 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 Oxford English Reference Dictionary
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary sorrowful Sorrowful means very sad. (LITERARY) His father's face looked suddenly soft and sorrowful... ADJ English Explanatory Dictionary sorrowful ˈsɔrəful adj. 1 feeling or showing sorrow. 2 distressing, lamentable. øøsorrowfully adv. sorrowfulness n. [OE sorhful (as SORROW, -FUL)] English-Old English dictionary sorrowful Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 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. Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms 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. English Explanatory Dictionary (Synonyms) 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! Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 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 |
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