sorrowful

[ sor-uh-fuhl, sawr- ]

/ ˈsɒr ə fəl, ˈsɔr- /

full of or feeling sorrow; grieved; sad.

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

involving or causing sorrow; distressing: a sorrowful event.

RELATED WORDS

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

SYNONYMS FOR sorrowful

Related forms

sor·row·ful·ly, adverbsor·row·ful·ness, nouno·ver·sor·row·ful, adjectiveo·ver·sor·row·ful·ly, adverb

o·ver·sor·row·ful·ness, noun

Romney manages to speak highly and sorrowfully of the freedom agenda, and thus to praise Bush.
Arab Spring Comment Was a Romney Love Letter to the Israeli Right Wing|Michael Tomasky|July 28, 2012|DAILY BEAST
He was a dissident,” Havel told me sorrowfully “before he was a man.
Vaclav Havel Was Torn Between Socialism and Freedom|Geoffrey Robertson|December 22, 2011|DAILY BEAST
This was not said sorrowfully, but with a bright gleam as of some fancied and pleasant possibility.
The Carpenter's Daughter|Anna Bartlett Warner
"I have given you no cause to hate me," said Belle, looking me sorrowfully in the face.
Res Judicat|Augustine Birrell

"She has rejected him, I see it by your face; I suspected it from his wanderings," she said, sorrowfully.
Wives and Widows; or The Broken Life|Ann S. Stephens
"All right—if you say so," the poor child said sorrowfully, and I knew that her affection for me had been put to a fiery test.
At the Age of Eve|Kate Trimble Sharber
The children sympathized with her and said one after the other, sorrowfully, "What a pity, what a pity!"
Uncle Titus and His Visit to the Country|Johanna Spyri