Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Feeling, showing, or expressing sorrow. synonym: sad.
- adjective Causing sorrow.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Feeling sorrow or grief; grieved; unhappy; sad.
- Productive of sorrow; grievous; distressing; lamentable; pitiable.
- Expressive or indicative of sorrow, grief, or regret; plaintive; pathetic.
- Affected or accompanied by grief; melancholy; doleful; afflicted.
- Synonyms Dismal, disconsolate, rueful, woful.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Full of sorrow; exhibiting sorrow; sad; dejected; distressed.
- adjective Producing sorrow; exciting grief; mournful; lamentable; grievous.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of a person, full of
sorrow ; exhibiting sorrow;sad ;dejected ;distressed ;distraught . - adjective Producing sorrow; exciting grief;
mournful ;lamentable ;grievous .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss
Etymologies
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Examples
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And for a little while they halted in sorrowful silence at the place where the windmill had once stood.
Animal Farm 1945
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The king gazed in sorrowful amazement at the change.
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[Page 83] making in the Pleasant Ridge; sorrowful is the cry of the blackbird in Leiter Laeig.
The Kiltartan Poetry Book: Prose Translations from the Irish 1919
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Oh, yes! you knew and loved her very well, and her death will have carried you back in sorrowful memory through how many years of constant friendly affectionate intercourse to the bright days when we were all young together, and now "behold I, I alone am left," of the four children of my father, left behind by them all, two of whom in natural course of human existence should have survived me.
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Were these miserable beings, who, worn and wretched, passed in sorrowful procession, the sole remnants of the race of man, which, like
III.7 1826
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Note, The case of true believers, though sometimes it may be sorrowful, is never comfortless, because they are never orphans: for God is their Father, who is an everlasting Father.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721
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And you can see, in the background, Jesus turning to hear his beloved disciple renounce him, his expression sorrowful as Peter’s is tormented.
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And you can see, in the background, Jesus turning to hear his beloved disciple renounce him, his expression sorrowful as Peter’s is tormented.
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And you can see, in the background, Jesus turning to hear his beloved disciple renounce him, his expression sorrowful as Peter’s is tormented.
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If I were to give you a hint of what we feel at the sight of your handwriting, and at the receipt of a word from yourself about yourself, and the dear boys, and the precious little girls, I should begin to be sorrowful, which is rather the tendency of my mind at the close of another long book.
The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 1 (of 3), 1833-1856 Charles Dickens 1841
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