sorrowful

[ sor-uh-fuhl, sawr- ]
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adjective
  1. full of or feeling sorrow; grieved; sad.

  2. showing or expressing sorrow; mournful; plaintive: a sorrowful song.

  1. involving or causing sorrow; distressing: a sorrowful event.

Origin of sorrowful

1
before 900; Middle English sorowful,Old English sorgful.See sorrow, -ful

Other words for sorrowful

Other words from sorrowful

  • sor·row·ful·ly, adverb
  • sor·row·ful·ness, noun
  • o·ver·sor·row·ful, adjective
  • o·ver·sor·row·ful·ly, adverb
  • o·ver·sor·row·ful·ness, noun

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How to use sorrowful in a sentence

  • She felt very sorrowful as she smoothed the homely garments, and placed them in a small leathern trunk.

    The World Before Them | Susanna Moodie
  • Ney and Marmont did not accompany the other Commissioners with their sorrowful terms; like rats they left the sinking ship.

    Napoleon's Marshals | R. P. Dunn-Pattison
  • For the affliction of the daughter of my people I am afflicted, and made sorrowful, astonishment hath taken hold on me.

  • The post-boy returned, sorrowful, to Petersfield, where he procured another horse and rode back to Liphook.

  • For she must always find something to be glad of before she could be sorrowful about any thing.

    Tessa Wadsworth's Discipline | Jennie M. Drinkwater