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Sorrowful definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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

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 Reference Dictionary

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

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

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

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

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.

Moby Thesaurus

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